Later this week, Run For Cowl will launch I Will Swim To You, a brand new tribute compilation devoted to the work of the late Songs: Ohia/Magnolia Electrical Co. chief Jason Molina. We’ve already posted the covers from MJ Lenderman, Solar June, Hint Mountains, and Teen Suicide, and the comp additionally consists of contributions from Hand Habits, Runnner, Advance Base, and Friendship, amongst others. Immediately, we get to listen to two extra advance tracks from Horse Jumper Of Love and Lutalo.
Boston’s Horse Jumper Of Love not too long ago launched two new tracks, “The Fool” and “The Automobile Is aware of The Means,” and helped out on Winter’s “Distress.” For I Will Swim To You, they’ve contributed a tangled, intense seven-minute cowl of “Blue Manufacturing facility Flame,” the awful epic that opens Songs: Ohia’s 2002 album Didn’t It Rain. In a press launch, Horse Jumper Of Love’s Dimitri Giannopoulos of Horse Jumper says:
Bradford Krieger co-produced our cowl and performed second guitar, and Ella Williams from Squirrel Flower sang concord with me. This tune cuts by means of to some deeper, primal a part of me. It has made me cry earlier than. Once I hear the primary line, “Once I die…,” every thing in my life swirls round in my head. Then the primary refrain hits, and I really feel faraway from all of it — free, as a result of there’s nothing. However the amp hum left within the recording is one in all my favourite issues — it appears like an digital voice phenomenon, like some spirit making an attempt to speak with us, to remind us there isn’t simply nothing and vacancy. Jason Molina has proved that by means of his music.
Vermont indie rock musician Lutalo has additionally shared a laconic, echoing cowl of “Shadow Solutions The Wall,” from Jason Molina’s posthumously launched album Eight Gates. Lutalo says, “I like the overall tone of the tune, but additionally the lyrical construction felt so resonant to me. I recognize how obscure the lyrics are, permitting the listener to affiliate their very own ideas and emotions. It’s a kind of poetry I all the time lean towards — Jason was a real grasp of that freedom of expertise.” Take heed to each covers beneath.
I Will Swim To You: A Tribute To Jason Molina is out 9/5 on Run For Cowl.