Reconstruction Site

by The Weakerthans

Reconstruction Site cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 26 August 2003
  • Label: Epitaph
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 40:47
  • Community rating: 4.23/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Ian Blurton, Jason Tait, Christine Fellows, Stephen Carroll, John P. Sutton, John K. Samson, Rusty Matys

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Transitioning to a prominent punk label, the Canadian outfit expanded their literary punk foundations with prominent pedal steel and horns. John K. Samson's highly detailed songwriting explores themes of terminal illness, regional identity, and the comforting minutiae of domestic life.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, literate, storytelling, confessional, plainspoken

Tracklist

  1. (Manifest)
  2. The Reasons
  3. Reconstruction Site
  4. Psalm For The Elks Lodge Last Call
  5. Plea From A Cat Named Virtute
  6. Our Retired Explorer (Dines With Michel Foucault In Paris, 1961)
  7. Time's Arrow
  8. (Hospital Vespers)
  9. Uncorrected Proofs
  10. A New Name For Everything
  11. One Great City!
  12. Benediction
  13. The Prescience Of Dawn
  14. (Past Due)

Credits

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