Magnolia Electric Co. - What Comes After the Blues
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Artist: Magnolia Electric Co.Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-04-05
Music Label: Secretly Canadian
Soundtracks:
- The Dark Don't Hide It
- The Night Shift Lullaby - Magnolia Electric Co., Benford, Jennie
- Leave the City
- Hard to Love a Man
- Give Somthing Else Away Every Day
- Northstar Blues
- Hammer Down
- I Can Not Have Seen the Light
Free Music Notes for What Comes After the Blues
Free Music Review: Kickin' Alt-Country
Hit: 5 Stars
This Ohia/Magnolia CD kicks it a bit more than usual without destroying the Molina angst. While I read some negative comments about the band moving toward a more 'entertaining' profile in this album, it's fun to rock out once in a while (breaks up the solo-guitar plaintiff tone.) I think you have to look at Molina/Ohia/Magnolia's entire body of work rather than (like the sight-challenged men and the elephant story) any single release.
What Comes After the Blues Poster
With 'What Comes After the Blues,' we enter a new era with Jason Molina. After seven full-length studio albums in as many years - each recorded using a revolving cast of players under the name Songs: Ohia - Molina has retired the name as well as his wayward days and settled in with a new, consistent cast of players. He has named this group Magnolia Electric Co., after his final Songs: Ohia album. Why now? Surely moving to Southern Indiana and finding a once-in-a-career band consisting of Pete Schreiner, Jason Groth, Mark Rice and Mike Kapinus had something to do with it.Sonically, this isn't a huge departure from where Songs: Ohia was headed these past few years. The steel howls hauntedly, the guitars soar and crunch with verve, and the songs resonate with timelessness. Steve Albini's live-in-a-room, captured-as-it-was-played engineering technique is still a crucial player. Where we find the marked difference is in their confidence, as afforded by experience and trust in one another. These guys are talented, hardworking, and actually enjoy playing with one another - and you can hear it in their songs. As on the limited edition live album Trials & Errors, Magnolia Electric Co. know exactly what they are shooting for and hit it dead center with every attempt. This is not indie rock anymore. Magnolia Electric Co. have made a no-bullshit album that is both rocking and full of life.a fist-pumper that manages to hit great depths of beauty.
Here's what's confusing: Jason Molina, main guy behind Magnolia Electric Co., was, in a previous incarnation, Songs: Ohia, which put out the widely praised 2003 disc Magnolia Electric Co . Regardless of what handle he's recording under, though-and there have been many-Molina's sound maintains a certain earthy, tumbleweeds-and-troubled-times integrity that doesn't appear to be winding its way toward beach blankets and sunny skies. On What Comes After the Blues, as on other efforts, there is a certain Neil Youngishness to the music that can't be ignored (dig into reading material on Molina and you quickly get the sense he'd prefer that it be ignored). But that's to its advantage. Where the late-90s indie rock brigade bulldozed their own mud-caked interpretations of Harvest-era folk into the ground, opening the door for the resurgence of retooled 80s pop, Molina's rotgut-steeped rock betrays a haunting! authenticity that won't soon lose its flavor. The gratifying opening guitar storm of first track "The Dark Don't Hide It," in fact, could fuel a real-rock turnabout on its own. --Tammy La Gorce
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