Artist: Jason Collett
Album: Reckon
Bitrate: 239kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Arts & Crafts
Genre: Indie
Size: 150.03 megs
PlayTime: 1h 22min 45sec total
Rip Date: 2012-11-18
Store Date: 2012-11-09
Track List: Disc #1/2
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01. Pacific Blue 2:49
02. Jasper Johns' Flag 2:17
03. King James Rag 2:10
04. Sailor Boy 1:49
05. Ask No Questions 2:00
06. You're Not The One and Only 2:40
Lonely One
07. Miss Canada 2:31
08. Talk Radio 2:06
09. I Wanna Rob A Bank 3:17
10. Where Things Go Wrong 3:48
11. Song Of The Silver-Haired 3:11
Hippie
12. Black Diamond Girl 1:53
13. My Daddy Was A Rocknroller 3:26
14. Don't Let The Truth Get To You 2:58
15. When The War Came Home 4:47
Track List: Disc #2/2
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01. Bitter Beauty 3:39
02. Blue Sky 3:27
03. We All Lose One Another 4:20
04. Hangover Days 4:35
05. I'll Bring The Sun 3:33
06. No Redemption Song 2:52
07. Charlyn, Angel Of Kensington 4:35
08. Brother 4:03
09. Long May You Love 4:05
10. Love Is A Dirty Word 2:43
11. Every Night 3:11
Release Notes:
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More than a few American songwriters have been weighing in on the troubled state
of the nation in the election year of 2012, and Jason Collett (best known for
his work with Broken Social Scene) confirms similar anxieties are brewing north
of the border in Canada as he takes a long, hard look at North American malaise
on his album Reckon. As the Occupy movement poses questions about global
economic equality, Collett takes a jaunty but pointed look at the lives of the
haves versus the have-nots in "I Wanna Rob a Bank," while the exploitation of
Third World peoples for their minerals and jewels is an undercurrent in "Black
Diamond Girl," the economic and environmental impact of oil exploration informs
"Miss Canada," "Talk Radio" is a brief but affecting look at one man watching
the world and the culture he knows crumbling around him, and the troubling state
of the world as summarized in "When the War Came Home" and "Don't Let the Truth
Get to You." Politics isn't all Collett has on his mind on Reckon, but there are
plenty of other signs here of a world where ethics are in short supply -- the
unfaithful husband of "Ask No Questions," the oblique musings on patriotism in
"Jasper Johns' Flag," the lover's lament of "You're Not the One and Only Lonely
One," and a lifetime of disappointment hovering in the air in "When Things Go
Wrong." Collett doesn't rant on Reckon, and the subdued tone of this music
hardly makes it sound like a call to arms, but he's more than capable of making
himself heard without shouting, and the artful dynamics of the music reinforce
the intelligent disdain of the music. If Collett sometimes sounds like he's
viewing these events from a distance, he sees some details the folks in the
thick of the action might have missed, and Reckon is a statement that hits hard
(and close to home) if you'll give it a careful listen.