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Weekly mp3 #13: Songs: Ohia - The Lioness

Download 'The Lioness' from the label's website . Completely different from the last couple of weeks, this one. Liking immaculately chiselled electronic production doesn't preclude appreciating the exact opposite...

My wife has called this crash-your-car music, but I have a soft spot for a certain kind of gloomy slow rock stuff. The vagely country bits, I guess - Mark Kozelek / Red House Painters, stuff like that. Lyrics like "I want to feel my heart break, if it must break, in your jaws / want you to lick my blood off your paws". This one's not Steve Albini-produced, but has a similar aesthetic to the Songs:Ohia tracks that are. That is, it avoids contemporary standards for sheen and polish in studio recording, and leaves heaps of space for some decent dynamics. Works really well.

Songs:Ohia was essentially Jason Molina's project. He's more recently been recording as Magnolia Electric Co. This tune is another one of those cases where I heard this song and thought "Shit, got to hear more of this!", then heard more of this and went "Ah. Shit." Molina does have other really good songs, but just not much that suits my tastes. Again I find myself pondering what the X factor is, but I won't go on about that again... Just go read Equus to understand my dilemma. ;) Heh, that's probably about as cheerful as this song!

Labels: music, weekly mp3

Posted at 13:10