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[Johnny C]

The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour



http://www.mediafire.com/?cuh013oe3j1

Easily my favourite album of the year so far. "Civil Twilight" is also one of the best openers I've heard on an album in a while.

What are your thoughts?

[IronOxide]

I think the album is by in large what we have come to expect from the Weakerthans. The song structures have gotten a little more complex while remaining familiar. More songs about sad cats and Canadian figures. It is no great departure, but I am okay as long as the lyrics remain being the same earnest, heartfelt stuff I have come to expect.

It is definitely in my top five for the year so far, a very solid album.

[Johnny C]

Actually what I'm interested more is that it kind of presents a unified mood for one thing. By and large the album is subdued and reflective - even the more upbeat tracks like "Civil Twilight" are about that sort of thing. It also seems to be centred around a theme of loss and emptiness. Things are missing all over the place.

The return to the Virtue character intrigues the hell out of me though. The last song from her perspective was so utterly inspiring that I used the damn thing every time I had a friend who needed cheering up. If I tried that with this song I would likely have one less friend. I wonder if Samson considers this the end of the character or plans to use her as a device to cement the themes of another album - though that's speculation about a new album from dudes who took, what, three or four years to deliver this record?

[IronOxide]

It also seems to be centred around a theme of loss and emptiness. Things are missing all over the place.

I agree, and I think this is kind of a continuation of the last album. Reconstruction Site was largely about the process of losing something. This kind of feels like a continuation with the next steps of that theme. Instead of the process of losing something, this album focuses more on what happens when the thing is lost.

I think that is how Virtute links these albums. In Reconstruction Site, she is dealing with her depressed owner, kind of losing it, wanting to cheer him/her up. In Reunion Tour, she is gone (maybe fighting with the tabby she wanted to play with in the first), in a way that is directly relatable to the last album. She provides a good relation between the similar themes of the two albums.

[SeanBateman]

This leak courtesy of

hipinion.com/forums.

[Kai]

high five hipinion!


o/

[rhinohelicopter]

- though that's speculation about a new album from dudes who took, what, three or four years to deliver this record?

Just remember that this is a former member of Propagandhi who have only made four studio albums in almost 20 years.