![]() ![]() The album doesn’t modulate its approach in the slightest, but that does little to hamper either the individual songs or their grand sum. ![]() It’s music made for longing, for making long sleepless nights more crushing and bearable at once, something to hone the senses and cloud the mind. Each song of the record stands separately as a stunning little autumnal devastator, and together, the seven pieces plait into a guttering whole, the lo-fi indie frame turned sensuous and sombre with delicate touches of bluegrass and gospel. The sixth full-length release from Songs: Ohia, a vehicle of the late Jason Molina’s winding blues Didn’t It Rain is the most sublime of slow-burners, seven takes of spare, skeletal melancholy, considerably more minimal than the lushness of Ghost Tropic, and all the more ruinous for it. Review Summary: There's gospel in the pines. ![]()
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