“Farewell Transmission” by Songs: Ohia

"Farewell Transmission" comes from The Magnolia Electric Co., which Secretly Canadian released on March 4, 2003, and it's Jason Molina's song, words and music, cut by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago.

The album sits on a strange border in Molina's story. It came out as a Songs: Ohia record, yet the cover doesn't carry that name anywhere, and it shares its title with the new band Molina announced on the tour that followed that spring, even though the players on it weren't that band's later lineup. Musically it's a plunge into alt-country and roots rock, full-blooded country rock with the ghost of '70s outlaw country in the songwriting, grounded in Americana and a little otherworldly at once, and critics hailed it on arrival.

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