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- Summary: This is the incredibly prolific Jason Molina's second studio album with his blues-rock outfit Magnolia Electric Co.
- Record Label: Secretly Canadian
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 11
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Mixed: 4 out of 11
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Negative: 0 out of 11
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What the cathartic Fading Trails might lack in foot-tapping motivation, it makes up for in passion and honesty and is highly recommended for those who like to dig a little deeper for albums that get better each time they are played.
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UncutMolina's at the top of his lonesome game throughout. [Oct 2006, p.117]
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Fading Trails shows he's capable of being a striking indie-rock personality.
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Despite the relatively heavy guitars and relatively dense production, you’ll notice a similarity to the smart, earnest, complex material Molina played as Songs: Ohia.
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The full-band songs rarely manage the sort of charismatic country-rock crunchiness that made What Comes After the Blues so endearing on repeated listen. On the other hand, the solo tracks can’t really match up to the almost uniformly excellent offerings on Let Me Go.
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With its restructured band lineup and multiple producers/locations, Fading Trails is unavoidably a somewhat dispirited and disjointed affair.
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Fading Trails feels like a handful of decent songs that, thrown together seemingly at random, form an unfortunate snooze of a record.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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AlexFSep 20, 2006
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MattHOct 1, 2006
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