Artist: Magnolia Electric Co
Title: Josephine
Label: Secretly Canadian
Genre: Indie
Bitrate: 186kbit av.
Time: 00:46:43
Size: 66.00 mb
Rip Date: 2009-06-12
Str Date: 2009-07-21
01. O! Grace 3:27
02. The Rock Of Ages 2:42
03. Josephine 3:22
04. Shenandoah 4:36
05. Whip-Poor-Will 4:12
06. Song For Willie 2:20
07. Hope Dies Last 3:15
08. The Handing Down 3:32
09. Map Of The Falling Sky 3:41
10. Little Sad Eyes 4:13
11. Heartbreak At Ten Paces 2:03
12. Knoxville Girl 3:50
13. Shiloh 4:10
14. An Arrow In The Gale 1:20
Release Notes:
For Josephine, the band teamed up again with engineer Steve Albini at
his Electrical Audio Studios in Chicago, IL for what proved to be an
emotional recording session. About halfway through Josephine, they
report a noticeable shift in weight. A release of some kind, the kind
that comes when you give up holding back the tears. It's a heavy kind
of freedom coming to the forefront, an empowering sadness. And when
chief Electrician Jason Molina delivers the line "an hour glass...
filled with tears and twilight from a friend's dying day," the mood
becomes clear. The band is on its heels, yes, but they are going to
fight back in the only way they know how. Molina's concept album is an
honest-to-God effort on the part of Magnolia Electric Co to pay tribute
to the life and spirit of fallen bassist Evan Farrell (R.I.P. December
2007). Molina has said each tune is a good faith attempt to make real
Evan's hopes for the record. And in doing so, Evan's spirit becomes
part of the concept. The loss of Josephine becomes the loss of Evan.
Molina's familiar lyrical allegories are still in tact. But here, in
what is no doubt the strongest set of songs Molina has written since
the inception of Magnolia Electric Co., those classic themes take on
new meanings. Molina has approached the universal loneliness before,
but never in such a focused, directed manner as found on Josephine.