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Jason Molina is one of the all timers. “Farewell Transmission” could be the national anthem for a country that deserves it. Appreciate you reminding me how much more time I need to spend with these records.

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It's sort of mind-blowing every time I come back to them. I'm overwhelmed by how astounding they are.

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During my infrequent Molina conversations over the years, I was always the only one to bring up this album. Thanks for shouting it out!

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It's one that always sticks out to me, so it's always a surprise that it's not as widely beloved.

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Great read, transcendent album. Spectral Alphabet strikes me as criminally overlooked even among Molina-heads. He has a way of threading esotericism/lost wisdom through a lot of his work, and that song really does it in the most arresting way for me. Like the rest of the album, it is lyrically brilliant, but the delivery of the coos between stanzas must be heard to fully appreciate it.

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Spectral Alphabet is a strangely driving song on the album -- that train-track percussion to counterpoint your train-whistle coos. It's ironic -- the road song before it, the train song following -- that it feels like it has such a momentum behind it.

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Amen brother! Molina’s lyrics and reverb soaked guitar on Division St Girl bring tears to my eyes just thinking about it. He was one of the best.

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He really was.

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