Reconstruction Site
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| Reconstruction Site | ||
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| Studio album by The Weakerthans | ||
| Released | September 26, 2003 | |
| Recorded | January-March 2003 | |
| Genre | Folk-punk | |
| Length | 40:46 | |
| Label | Epitaph | |
| Producer(s) | Ian Blurton | |
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All Music Guide |
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| The Weakerthans chronology | ||
| Watermark EP (2001) |
Reconstruction Site (2003) |
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Reconstruction Site is a 2003 album by The Weakerthans.
A song cycle about grief, regret and loss, the album is thematically framed by three tracks, "(Manifest)", "(Hospital Vespers)" and "(Past-Due)", which set three different sonnets about a terminally ill hospital patient to the same melody.
Other songs examine the album's themes from different angles -- "Plea From a Cat Named Virtute" is written from the perspective of a depressed person's cat, "One Great City!" is about Samson's love-hate relationship with his hometown of Winnipeg, and "Our Retired Explorer" imagines a dinner date between Michel Foucault and a hopelessly nostalgic member of Ernest Shackleton's expedition to Antarctica.
Guest musicians on the album include Sarah Harmer and Christine Fellows. The album's cover art was designed by Canadian artist and fellow Winnipegger Marcel Dzama.
[edit] Track listing
All songs by The Weakerthans and all lyrics by John K. Samson.
- "(Manifest)" – 1:45
- "The Reasons" – 2:50
- "Reconstruction Site" – 2:45
- "Psalm for the Elks Lodge Last Call" – 2:45
- "Plea from a Cat Named Virtute" – 3:49
- "Our Retired Explorer (Dines With Michel Foucault in Paris, 1961)" – 2:23
- "Time's Arrow" – 2:53
- "(Hospital Vespers)" – 1:41
- "Uncorrected Proofs" – 2:42
- "A New Name for Everything" – 4:04
- "One Great City!" – 2:55
- "Benediction" – 3:28
- "The Prescience of Dawn" – 4:37
- "(Past-Due)" – 2:10
