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The Weakerthans, Reconstruction Site

Audio CD

Disk ID: 825481

Disk length: 40m 49s (14 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 2003

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. (Manifest) 1:44
2. The Reasons 2:50
3. Reconstruction Site 2:44
4. Psalm for the Elks Lodge Last Call 2:44
5. Plea from a Cat Named Virtue 3:48
6. Our Retired Explorer (Dines with Michel Foucault in Paris, 1961) 2:23
7. Time's Arrow 2:52
8. (Hospital Vespers) 1:40
9. Uncorrected Proofs 2:42
10. A New Name for Everything 4:04
11. One Great Cit 2:54
12. Benediction 3:28
13. The Prescience of Dawn 4:36
14. (Past-Due) 2:10

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Review

John Sampson continues to sharpen the contrast between the noisy agitprop of his former band Propagandhi and the low-key melodicism of his current one on this, the Winnipeg-based Weakerthans third full album. Forcefully literate (Sampson spent time between his two musical projects writing and launching a small publishing business) yet wed to a coolly urgent alt-pop musical sense that nicely underplays his self-conscious musings on personal obsessions that variously take in the title track's introspective impressionism, the poisonous nature of nostalgic, ritual cronyism on "Psalm For the Elks Lodge Last Call," and the acoustic poison-pen letter to his native Winnipeg, "One Great City." Propelled by a straightforward, occasionally jangly electric guitar assault, yet lightly seasoned with deft horn touches, pedal steel and simple harmonies, it's an album that's smart at every level. --Jerry McCulleySonically located in the finest tradition of Punk, The Weakerthans walk an archipelago of influences from rock to folk to alt-country and beyond, led by lyrics tutored in the best of contemporary literature and progressive politics. 14 tracks packaged in a digipak. Includes the music video for the track 'Our Retired Explorer' & other bonus CD-ROM content. Epitaph. 2003.

Other Versions

Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.

Reconstruction Site

Tracks: 14, Disk length: 40m 47s (-1m 58s)

Reconstruction Site

Tracks: 14, Disk length: 42m 18s (+1m 29s)

Reconstruction Site

Tracks: 14, Disk length: 42m 21s (+1m 32s)

Reconstruction Site

Tracks: 15 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 43m 28s (+2m 39s)

Reconstruction Site

Tracks: 15 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 1h 4m 23s (+23m 34s)

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