Songs: Ohia

...is ruled by indie-rock. The leader of Magnolia Electric Co. got his start at Oberlin College in the mid-'90s and hit the scene as Songs: Ohia before changing the name to one of the band's album titles in 2003. Whatever you call it,...

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...Things | Pitchfork When I first dipped into Jason Molina's Songs: Ohia catalog a few years back, it seemed to me unlikely I would ever truly parse the differences between Molina's work and that of Will Oldham. This was, admittedly, the...

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...there is more of an arc to it on this record. The album explores well the vicious cycle of isolation, the causes that come both from within the individual and from the giant world around them. It's also got a couple of their finest songs to...

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..."Fading Trails" CD, which included a few songs and served as a sonic Whitman's Sampler tracing Molina's evolution from the subtle, stripped-down indie-folk of Songs: Ohia and occasional solo offerings to the emergence in 2003 of Magnolia...

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...offering mixed opinions on its success: "It i hard to avoid thinking of Neil Young and Crazy Horse at the peak of their '70s powers" (Mojo , Feb 2005). "Magnolia Electric Co. is no Crazy Horse, and Molina's vocabulary on the guitar doesn't...

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...tree '''Ohi'a lehua '' and Molina's home state of Ohio. Molina's first release under the Songs: Ohia moniker came in 1996 as a single on Palace Records, Nor Cease Thou Never Now. This was followed by the 1997 full-length album, Songs: Ohia...

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On the other hand, the album was recorded with different musicians than the current members of Magnolia Electric Co., and the decision to take on the new name was not announced until the tour following the release in the Spring of 2003.

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