It’s been more than a decade since Jason Molina died at the age of 39, leaving behind a powerful legacy of stark, emotionally resonant music that made much of an earnest voice, a heart-torn story and the barest accoutrements of alt.country-into-blues-rock sound. First as Songs:Ohia and later as Magnolia Electric Company, Molina made a series of slow-burning, desolate classics, including the landmark Didn’t It Rain from 2002.
Lucas Schleicher reviewed the 2014 reissue of this disc very movingly at Dusted, writing, “The rest depends on Molina’s commanding voice and his lyrics, which swim in an ambiguous play of shadow and light. The spaces between the notes and the black quiet that laps against each strummed chord play as large a role in setting…

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