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- Date Released: April 18, 2009
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Alternative
- Label: Secretly Canadian / SC Dist.
A mesmerizing, too-brief EP of near-subliminal subtlety from Molina
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We Say...
The once-prolific Magnolia Electric Co.'s Jason Molina has kept his fans waiting three years for new music, which arrives in the form of this exceedingly brief EP, originally released as a limited-edition 7". Lasting just over a combined six minutes, the EP's four songs are brief, sketch-like affairs, with barely enough time to establish themselves before they drift off like errant clouds. By comparison, the closing instrumental, "Protection Spell," feels like an epic at two and a half minutes. Considering that the EP's proceeds go to a memorial fund for the band's bassist and pedal steel player, Evan Farrell, who died in a house fire in 2007, the premature endings have a melancholy tinge.
Despite their almost subliminal length, the songs manage to pack in a goodly amount of fresh ideas: the metronome beat of "It's Made Me Cry," which sounds like the crackle of static electricity; the eerie overlapping vocals of "The Compass, the Candle, the Bell." It's all over with too quickly (a full-length is due out in the fall), but it makes for mesmerizing listening on endless loop, letting its mournful sounds wash over you again and again.
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It's Made Me Cry |
1:17 |
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| 02. | |
Protection Spell |
2:39 |
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| 03. | |
Rock Of Ages |
1:25 |
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| 04. | |
The Compass, The Candle, The Bell |
1:04 |
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04 Total Tracks, 6:25 Total Length
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