2004, Epitaph Records
VINYL FORMAT. The title of the Weakerthans' third full-length LP is appropriate, because "Reconstruction Site" is a great way to describe the most defined document yet of singer, principal songwriter, and guitarist John Samson's trajectory from the punk rock of Propagandhi to the Weakerthans' quietly determined indie pop. While his former group was as concerned with social change as it was with a lockstep drum beat, Samson's recent work has traded power-chord fury for the slow-burning -- but no less hot -- embers of fully realized, deceptively simple pop/rock that brings the songwriter's flair for metaphor to stage front.
Tracklisting
Disc 1
| 1 | Manifest |
| 2 | Reasons |
| 3 | Reconstruction Site |
| 4 | Psalm for the Elks Lodge Last Call |
| 5 | Plea from a Cat Named Virtue |
| 6 | Our Retired Explorer (Dines With Michel Foucault in Paris, 1961) |
| 7 | Time's Arrow |
| 8 | (Hospital Vespers) |
| 9 | Uncorrected Proofs |
| 10 | New Name for Everything |
| 11 | One Great City! |
| 12 | Benediction |
| 13 | Prescience of Dawn |
| 14 | (Past-Due) |
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