Molina is 2006's answer to Ryan Adams.

If you like the work of JM please post in this thread.

j.

Songs: Ohia records were getting incredible by the end, there. Didn't it Rain is one of the best albums I've ever heard...but the first Magnolia Electric Co. disc was even better. Fucking awesome.

I hope the new one is better than the last, though. They're a great live band, if anybody gets a chance to see them.

And Molina + Andrew Bird would be awesome.

Didn't It Rain is brilliant. Magnolia Electric, Co features my favourite Molina song - John Henry Split My Heart - and is almost as good as Didn't It Rain.

Molina and Tweedy would really float my boat.

j.

Anything Molina does is great. I wish he'd come out here more often.

never heard of this guy.

You know you wanna.

j.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/06-0 ... electricco

Magnolia Electric Co.'s Molina Records Three LPs

Dave Maher and Amy Phillips report:

Ghostface and Raekwon aren't the only ones from the projects. Magnolia Electric Co. mastermind Jason Molina even records there. His new solo album, Let Me Go, Let Me Go, Let Me Go, was recorded at engineer Jim Zespy's The Projects studio in Bloomington, Indiana. The album is in the vein of 2004's Pyramid Electric Co. and will see an official release in July on Secretly Canadian, though it is available at shows.

Never one to disappoint fans who expect him to keep up the three-record-per-year pace he established in 2005, Molina has also recorded two new Magnolia Electric Co. full lengths. The first, entitled Nashville Moon and planned for a September release, was recorded in Chicago at Steve Albini's Electrical Audio studios and mastered at Abbey Road. The second, tentatively titled The Black Ram, was recorded under the Magnolia Electric Co. moniker with a completely different band at Camper Van Beethoven frontman David Lowery's Sound of Music Studios in Richmond, Virginia. It does not have a release date at this time.

Let Me Go, Let Me Go, Let Me Go:

01 It's Easier Now
02 Everything Should Try Again
03 Alone With the Owl
04 Don't It Look Like the Rain
05 Some Things Never Try
06 It Must Be Raining There Forever
07 Get Out, Get Out, Get Out
08 It Costs You Nothing
09 Let Me Go, Let Me Go, Let Me Go

Nashville Moon:

01 Lonesome Valley
02 Montgomery Bound
03 Don't Fade on Me
04 Hammer Down
05 No Moon on the Water
06 Nashville Moon
07 What Comes After the Blues
08 North Star
09 Don't This Look Like the Dark
10 Bowery
11 Texas 71
12 Down the Wrong Road Both Ways

wow, i do NOT remember posting in this thread.

Here comes Midnight, With the dead moon in its jaws

LOVE that line! LOVE.

Molina Finishes Six New Albums, Preps Two For Fall

Jason Molina, principal force behind acclaimed outfits Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Company, has finished no less than six new albums, Billboard.com has learned. Secretly Canadian is currently planning to release all six, but only two this year. The first is a vinyl-only album, "Let Me Go, Let Me Go, Let Me Go," due Aug. 22.

"This type of release was inspired by Shellac, and with the numbers that we have sold over the years in this format, there are still a lot of people that appreciate this format," Molina tells Billboard.com. "They like the presentation of 'Side A' and 'Side B' material -- I try to make songs that are 'family' like."

"Let Me Go" was recorded over three days in Molina's garage studio and unlike previous releases, this is "essentially all acoustic instruments," he says. "I write a huge amount of material and throw most of it out. At times I will get in the studio and force myself to just write an entire front-to-back record and 'Let Me Go' is one of these. I felt it's thematically and audibly eerie enough to keep their original recordings."

The titles of the other five albums are "Fading Trails," "The Nashville Moon," "The Sun Studio Sessions," "The Black Ram" and "Shohola." "The Nashville Moon" was recorded by Steve Albini and mixed at Abbey Road Studios, while "The Black Ram" is a collaboration with Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker founder David Lowery.

Due Sept. 12, "Fading Trails" is a collection of songs from all of these recording sessions. On July 25, Magnolia Electric Company will kick off a short North American tour with Ladyhawk in Omaha, Neb.

Vinyl only?

This guy is great.

Wouldn't it be better to take a step back and put out the 12 best songs from the 80 or so he recorded?

let's just hope it's better than his last solo outing

was not a very big fan of that one

You're going to have to be a little more specific, solace.

his first solo record under his own name from 2004, it was called Pyramid Electric Co., and it was so damn depressing (bordering on boring at times too) imo.

i prefer his more heavier/rockin' Magnolia stuff to Songs:Ohia tho as well. the live record, Trials & Errors, is still my fave release of his i think, that or the first Magnolia one.

Get Out, Get Out, Get Out mp3...

http://www.secretlycanadian.com/onesheet.php?cat=SC149

sounds kinda in the same vain as the Pyramid Electric Co. album...

HOWEVER, this new song from the new Magnolia record, called Lonesome Valley, is fabulous imo!

http://www.scjag.com/mp3/sc/lonesomevalley.mp3

Generally, I would agree....or at least cut it down to two records. Besides, someday you'd be able to make a killing on paid downloads of unreleased material. But the stuff from these that I've heard so far makes me wonder if this might be the way to go. The four songs I've got are all great.