1 | Civil Twilight | Lyrics/Info | 3:17 |
2 | Hymn of the Medical Oddity | Lyrics/Info | 3:08 |
3 | Relative Surplus Value | Lyrics/Info | 2:37 |
4 | Tournament Of Hearts | Lyrics/Info | 3:34 |
5 | Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure | Lyrics/Info | 4:08 |
6 | Elegy from Gump Worsley | Lyrics/Info | 2:43 |
7 | Sun in an Empty Room | Lyrics/Info | 4:00 |
8 | Night Windows | Lyrics/Info | 4:35 |
9 | Bigfoot! | Lyrics/Info | 2:23 |
10 | Reunion Tour | Lyrics/Info | 2:07 |
11 | Utilities | Lyrics/Info | 4:34 |
Reunion Tour is another superb tome from indie rock's most singular narrators, the Weakerthans. The new album was recorded after-hours above a closed factory in the cold Canadian spring, weaving the frontier loneliness of the environment into rich lyrical yarns four years in the making. Songs such as "Sun in an Empty Room" and "Civil Twilight" tell of individual journeys with a melancholic empathy that Paste magazine has described as "songs of brutal beauty, little rock n roll vignettes that perfectly capture the malaise of the peculiar, disorienting times in which we live."
Indie rock heroes The Weakerthans new DVD-CD Live at the Burton Cummings Theatre, out now on Epitaph Records, offers a jubilant testament to the …