The LP is accompanied by a CD version of the album with replica artwork! Remember the first time you heard the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter"? Pyramid Electric Co is "Gimme Shelter" slowed down to 16 RPM. Jason Molina captures the same epic struggle in tone and weight. Most of the album is just Molina in a chair with a guitar, except on one tune he's at the piano; he's Nina Simone and he's singing his guts out. Although the Songs: Ohia frontman is all alone on this album (the first under his birth name)...   [ read more ]

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SOUND SAVER. Songs: Ohia will break your heart if you let them (and sometimes even if you don't). The songs here are full of failing relationship melancholy. Jason Molina's lyrics and voice cut right to the chase without being insincere or sappy. He is accompanied by haunting and fluid guitar, bass, and drum arrangements. Edith Frost joins him on "Captain Badass" to stab your heart further. Comparisons to Will Oldham's work (in various Palace incarnations) are inescapable, but this music stands on its own....   [ read more ]

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With the wailing lap steel of the album opener "Farewell Transmission," Jason Molina & Company usher in a new day, playing the sort of rock that your cool uncle liked back in the '70s. Landing somewhere on the radar sonically between Bob Dylan's "Desire" and Bob Seger's "Beautiful Loser," though thematically in-line with Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Simple Man," "The Magnolia Electric Co." lies at the crossroads of working class rock, white soul, swamp rock, and outlaw country. Boasting a doo-wop-like line-up with fi...   [ read more ]

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