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What Comes After the Blues
Magnolia Electric Co
What Comes After the Blues
Genres: Country, Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
 
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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 reti...  more »

     
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All Artists: Magnolia Electric Co
Title: What Comes After the Blues
Members Wishing: 5
Total Copies: 0
Label: Secretly Canadian
Release Date: 4/5/2005
Genres: Country, Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
Styles: Americana, Indie & Lo-Fi
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 656605010229, 656605010267

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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.

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CD Reviews

Neil Young comparison's aside...
Henry M. Hund | State College, PA USA | 04/17/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Jason Molina's latest studio album is far from his earlier releases. As Magnolia Electric Co., Molina again shares his own blues, but he does it in a way that is relatively new (as of Trials and Errors) for him.



This album is rocking, and the addition of female vocalist Jennie Benford is welcome - her performance on "The Night Shift Lullaby" might be the best of "What Comes After the Blues."



"What Comes After the Blues" certainly isn't "Didn't it Rain" or "Axxess and Ace" or any of Molina's previous Songs: Ohia releases.



Essential for any Molina fan, or anyone who can appreciate contemporary rock."
Punch in the Gut Beautiful
Jon Swindler | 06/16/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is the first time I've been so moved my an album that I felt compelled to use this forum to give feedback about (and promote) an artist. Excuse me, Artist. This album is the first exposure I've had with Jason Molina's music, and if his previous efforts are half as moving, I'll be buying them soon enough.

He's dark he's brooding and it's beautiful. The cathartic, yet familiar tone of his compositions convey raw, palpable emotion. His self-awareness is also in evidence in wonderfully simple "Northstar Blues" and "Hard to Love a Man" with it's asiatic interludes. The brevity of the album doesn't bother me, if it were longer I believe it would dilute the emotive power. Simply put, Molina is one of the strongest songwriter's I've heard in a long time and definitely worth supporting."