Josephine by Magnolia Electric Co.

Josephine is a Alt/Indie album by Magnolia Electric Co., originally released in 2009. On Gatefold: 8 pressings tracked, owned by 4 collectors.

Sound DNA

  • Alt/Indie
  • Indie Rock
  • sparse
  • wistful
  • heartland

About

<i>Josephine</i> is Jason Molina’s closest alt-country album to date. The frontman for Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co. has always flirted with the outer reaches of the genre, singing in a lonesome twang and finding the music’s lonely core in sweeping pedal steel and Neil Young-influenced bucking electric guitars, but with <i>Josephine</i> he comes ever closer to the music’s conventions. No longer settling on isolating two-chord dirges, Molina opens up new vistas that are clearly aimed westward. “The Handing Down” powers itself with a solid immovable organ, but “Shenandoah,” “Whip-poor-will” and “Hope Dies Last” feature the sort of forlorn Jack Kerouac-inspired night tripping that can be best explained as the sound of a man obsessed with the melancholic beauty at the heart of Hank Williams and Neil Young at their most stressed and haunted. The beats are tribal and final. The chords for “Map of the Falling Sky” come crashing with a doom that’s reflected in the fact that Molina lost a band member in a house fire and it’s to his ghost that this album is clearly illuminated.

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Tracklist

  1. 1O! Grace3:28
  2. 2The Rock Of Ages2:43
  3. 3Josephine3:23
  4. 4Shenandoah4:36
  5. 5Whip-Poor-Will4:13
  6. 6Song For Willie2:20
  7. 7Hope Dies Last3:18
  8. 8The Handing Down3:33
  9. 9Map Of The Falling Sky3:45
  10. 10Little Sad Eyes4:16
  11. 11Heartbreak At Ten Paces2:03
  12. 12KnoXVIlle Girl3:52
  13. 13Shiloh4:10
  14. 14An Arrow In The Gale1:20

Credits

Performers

4 collectors on Gatefold own this · 8 pressings tracked on Gatefold