

Reconstruction Site (CD)
The title of the Weakerthans' third full-length LP is appropriate, because even if it's not meant to, 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 | |
| Disk | 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) |
| Judson Trenholm
- Regina, , Canada |
| This is one of the best albums I have ever owned. It has absolutely amazing lyrics that truly are bitter sweet. I feel that I am a better person having listened to this album. | |
| Judson Trenholm
- Regina, , Canada |
| This is one of the best albums I have ever owned. It has absolutely amazing lyrics that truly are bitter sweet. I feel that I am a better person having listened to this album. | |