Seven years already. This was a tough loss.
If the blues are you hunterThen you will come face to faceWith that darkness and desolationAnd the endless depressionBut you are not helplessAnd you are not helplessTry to beat it
― Mule, Sunday, 22 March 2020 18:38 (four years ago) link
I mourn the loss regularly.
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Monday, 23 March 2020 03:11 (four years ago) link
Posthumous album of solo songs recorded in 2008 due in August, Eight Gates. Sounds like mostly solo acoustic songs mixed with field recordings from his time in London. Torn between really wanting to hear anything new from Molina and wondering if he wanted this stuff released...
https://secretlycanadian.com/record/eight-gates/
Eight Gates:
01 Whisper Away02 Shadow Answers the Wall03 The Mission’s End04 Old Worry05 She Says06 Fire on the Rail07 Be Told the Truth08 Thistle Blue09 The Crossroad + The Emptiness
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 14:06 (three years ago) link
The track thus far released is really doing it for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZLrnk0h8nE
― Soundslike, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 22:21 (three years ago) link
Torn between really wanting to hear anything new from Molina and wondering if he wanted this stuff released...
I'm very ambivalent about this as well but this track is really nice.
― Dinsdale, Saturday, 23 May 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link
I'm on a Molina binge rn and was thinking about whether I should get this.
― Duke, Friday, 3 July 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
I'd say that if you've got any interest at all in JM then you should definitely get it.
― neilasimpson, Saturday, 4 July 2020 14:38 (three years ago) link
"New Arriver album, awesome metal band featuring three members of the Mag. Elec. Co. band:
https://arriver.bandcamp.com
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 10 May 2017 16:34 (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink"
Josh (or anyone) - this record is amazing. How did you find out that some of the ME Co. folk were involved? I've done some cursory searching but can't find anything.
― neilasimpson, Saturday, 4 July 2020 14:39 (three years ago) link
Better searching reveals " Rob and Dan Sullivan on bass and guitar/vocals paid their dues in the late Jason Molina’s indie/alt. country outfit Songs: Ohia, even playing on the now-classic Magnolia Electric Co., which also featured McAdam."
https://ninecircles.co/2016/11/29/album-review-arriver-emeritus/
― neilasimpson, Saturday, 4 July 2020 14:46 (three years ago) link
Rob and Dan Macadam both went to Oberlin with us. Dan runs the amazing Crosshair silkscreen company.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 4 July 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
Dan M. is an old friend and neighbor (two blocks away) married to another old friend of mine from college. Coincidentally, Rob and Dan Sullivan are old friends of *another* really old college friend of mine, who also knew them from Maine (!). Dan S. btw is an incredible woodworker: http://www.navilluswoodworks.com Adding to the mix, Jeff, who played drums in the The Magnolia Electric Co. band, is married to a *different* old friend of mine.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 4 July 2020 16:55 (three years ago) link
This Arriver album is great, thanks
― Dinsdale, Saturday, 4 July 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link
I am super curious to hear Eight Gates, but I can't bring myself to do it just yet. As I mentioned earlier, I really struggle with the thought of him not wanting this stuff out there in this form.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 August 2020 20:34 (three years ago) link
I bought Eight Gates, on my third trip to the record shop. I had to, somehow. But I've yet to play it...
― Duke, Friday, 14 August 2020 21:29 (three years ago) link
Just discovered Eight Gates and was unnerved by that snippit at the start of "She Says" where they have Molina on tape saying "the perfect take is--just as long as the person singing is still alive..."
― Indexed, Thursday, 17 December 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
10 years gone.
― Mule, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 23:09 (one year ago) link
actually can't believe i'd written the man off as a palace copycat years ago. i listened hard this year and he's a completely different kind of writer. knowing so many of the songs were knocked out with one take is just phenomenal. as my mate put it: "never has someone made so much meaning out of such a minimal vocabulary". reading his biography rn...
― maelin, Sunday, 19 March 2023 12:47 (one year ago) link
so Fall Out Boy stole the "why put a new address on the same old loneliness" line? that's fucked up
― Heez, Monday, 24 April 2023 14:40 (one year ago) link
interestingly enough:
We have a picture of @petewentz in the Magnolia van to celebrate this fact. It was placed there by Jason Molina himself. I'll try to get a picture while we listen to the record today. #TimsTwitterListeningParty— Jason P. Evans Groth (@groakus) July 2, 2020
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 24 April 2023 15:58 (one year ago) link