Album Rating: 5.0

I’ve been listening to What Comes After the Blues this past week. Doesnt touch this obviously but is still great. “Northstar Blues” is incredible.

Album Rating: 5.0

All the Magnolia Electric Co stuff rules, but I especially recommend What Comes After The Blues. Similar in vibe to this one, if not quite as good, but still one of Molina's best.

What Comes After The Blues is an interesting album. It's much more easy-going than this one which I think was the right choice considering the scope they had on this one. "I Can Not Have Seen The Light" is just heartbreakingly beautiful.

Sojourner has a TON of exceptional material and some of his most... uncomfortably depressing lyrics he ever wrote. That album is much more standard alt country, country rock w/ever than this one but it's awesome. Trials & Errors is probably my favorite MEC album nowadays. It's live and it's fantastic. Very warm and thick sound to the recording. Really great recordings of The Dark Don't Hide It, Don't This Look Like The Dark, Almost Was Good Enough, and Leave The City. Such Pretty Eyes For A Snake is one of his very best songs.

Album Rating: 4.5

'John Henry Split My Heart' is at least as good as 'Farewell Transmission'. First time I've ever felt the descriptor of rollicking to actually mean anything.





I may be simple but the first two and last two on this album seem to be thematically linked more than the rest?

Album Rating: 4.5

I think I almost unanimously find a more emotional connection with all of Molina's demo versions of songs. The instrumentation often seems to distract from the emotional core of songs.

Album Rating: 5.0

Definitely disagreed there, Farewell Transmission gains SO MUCH through the contributions of all the players, ditto w/ Ghost, and the higher energy adds a dynamic that when it dissipates for the Just Be Simple’s or the Hold on Magnolia’s it punches all the harder.



It’s all perfect tho

Album Rating: 4.5

maybe i just hate lap steel on some fundamental classist level

Album Rating: 5.0

...but then he releases a more 'just acoustic' solo thing like 'Let Me Go' and it isn't as good - I think the instrumentation adds a bit for me

Album Rating: 5.0

Music industry was smart, jumping on the “lap steel” name before the Dick-euphemism industry could steal another one

Album Rating: 5.0

Eh idk Doof, this is certainly his best and the arrangements are wonderful, but I think the songwriting on Let Me Go might just be weaker because Pyramid Electric Co. is similarly stripped down/demo-esque and is excellent.

Album Rating: 4.5

the defence calls blue chicago moon to the stand. Molina's plaintive and emotionally arresting lyricism is crux to my attachment to him as an artist. I don't think it's controversial to say that most songs (w notable exceptions) in the molinaverse live and die by the stories and emotional connexion rather than the nuts and bolts instrumentation. If I were being controversial I would say that the on the road workin' band context for molina serves a primary function of providing a higher energy/more bookable live show and some drinking buddies and not much else

Album Rating: 4.5

Dust my feathers with his ashes

Feel his ghost breathin' down my back

Album Rating: 5.0

Real truth about it is, no one gets it right

Real truth about it is, we’re all supposed to try

Album Rating: 5.0

Always gets me how different the demo of Peoria Lunch Box Blues feels to the studio version. I love both. That kinda late-night bar vibe I get from the studio version really works and I love Scout's voice for it - feels like it's music for other people. The demo is so pared back and bleak that it feels like you're watching Jason playing to himself, peeping through a crack in the door.

Album Rating: 5.0

Whew been almost 2 weeks since I last listened



Glad it still holds up

best lyricist of all time

Album Rating: 5.0

You'll never hear me talkin' 'bout

One day gettin' out

Why put a new address

On the same old loneliness?

Hold on Magnolia
To that great highway moon
No one has to be that strong
But if you're stubborn like me
I know what you're trying to be

Hold on Magnolia
I hear that station bell ring
You might be holding the last light I see
Before the dark finally gets a hold of me

Hold on Magnolia
I know what a true friend you've been
In my life, I have had my doubts
But tonight, I think I've worked it out with all of them

Album Rating: 5.0

Hold on Magnolia is absolutely one of the songs that can wrench tears without fail

Album Rating: 4.5

also going to check out his other magnolia albums. Sojourner is massive