New Times is the sixth studio album by Violent Femmes, released in 1994, and the first not to feature original drummer Victor DeLorenzo on drums, who'd been replaced by Guy Hoffman. "Breakin' Up," a song lead singer Gordon Gano had written years before, was the lead single. Its video received minor airplay on MTV and appears on the band's DVD, Permanent Record - Live & Otherwise. The album did not sell well, but featured many of the Femmes' most musically complex and lyrically inventive songs, including "4 Seasons," and concert staple "I'm Nothing," which appeared in the movie Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas.
Track listing
Personnel
;Violent Femmes
- Gordon Gano – vocals <small>(1–13)</small>, electric and acoustic guitars <small>(1–5, 7–12)</small>, violin <small>(8, 10)</small>, organ <small>(13)</small>, baglama <small>(12)</small>
- Brian Ritchie – electric bass guitar <small>(1, 2, 4, 9, 11)</small>, acoustic bass guitar <small>(3, 5)</small>, upright bass <small>(6, 8, 10, 12, 13)</small>, electric guitar <small>(3)</small>, acoustic piano <small>(4)</small>, electric piano <small>(11)</small>, organ <small>(9)</small>, reed organ <small>(3, 12)</small>, electric sitar <small>(2, 10)</small>, nose flute <small>(4)</small>, theremin <small>(6)</small>, keyboards <small>(2, 6)</small>, electronics <small>(6)</small>, baglama <small>(12)</small>, vocals <small>(1–5, 9, 12)</small>
- Guy Hoffman – drums and percussion <small>(1–5, 8–13)</small>, vocals <small>(1–5, 8, 9, 11, 12)</small>
- Luisa Mann – vocals <small>(10)</small>
Charts
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|+ Chart performance for New Times
!scope="col"|Chart (1994)
!scope="col"|Peak<br />position
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!scope="row"|Australian Albums (ARIA)
| style="text-align:center;"|60
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!scope="row"|US Billboard 200
| style="text-align:center;"|90
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