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Pyramid Electric Co. (LP + CD)

Jason Molina

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The LP is accompanied by a CD version of the album with replica artwork!

Remember the first time you heard the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter"? Pyramid Electric Co is "Gimme Shelter" slowed down to 16 RPM. Jason Molina captures the same epic struggle in tone and weight. Most of the album is just Molina in a chair with a guitar, except on one tune he's at the piano; he's Nina Simone and he's singing his guts out. Although the Songs: Ohia frontman is all alone on this album (the first under his birth name), this is not a sparse recording. He is surrounded on all sides by ghosts and an otherworldly sonic ambience. We have producer/engineer Mike Mogis (Songs: Ohia's Ghost Tropic, Bright Eyes, The Faint, Racebannon) to thank for that, for making this a well-populated album of one. Yes, this loner is singing in a room as though no one will ever hear him, as though he's entombed for eternity. Or perhaps it's just that he was trapped in the flatlands of Nebraska for one especially lonely winter season. The guitar shuffles back and forth like a pulse. And this heart has melody as its guide. There's a timeless cadence to this song and you're not quite sure how old you are anymore. It slips every now and again, like an old goat up the hillside, but it always catches itself.

Tracklisting
Disk  | 1 
1Pyramid Electric Co
2Red Comet Dust
3Division St. Girl
4Honey, Watch Your Ass
5Song of the Road
6Spectral Alphabet
7Long Desert Train

 

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