- indie rock
- 41 min
- 14 tracks
- Burning Heart Records
Reconstruction Site is the third studio album by the Weakerthans, released on August 26, 2003. A song cycle about grief, regret, loss and eventual hope, the album is thematically framed by three tracks, "(Manifest)", "(Hospital Vespers)" and "(Past-Due)", which set three different sonnets following a terminally ill hospital patient into the aftermath of his death to the same melody.
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Spare, contemporary, grave and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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Tracks
- 1(Manifest)1:45
- 2The Reasons2:51
- 3Reconstruction Site2:45
- 4Psalm for the Elks Lodge Last Call2:45
- 5Plea From a Cat Named Virtute3:49
- 6Our Retired Explorer (Dines with Michel Foucault in Paris, 1961)2:24
- 7Time’s Arrow2:53
- 8(Hospital Vespers)1:40
- 9Uncorrected Proofs2:43
- 10A New Name for Everything4:04
- 11One Great City!2:54
- 12Benediction3:29
- 13The Prescience of Dawn4:36
- 14(Past‐due)2:09
14 tracks, 41 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- The Weakerthans
- Label
- Burning Heart Records
- Released
- August 25, 2003
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Enhanced CD
- Country
- XE
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