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Jan232012

John K. Samson - Provincial

DateMonday, January 23, 2012 at 3:11PM

Many albums have a biographical feel, but few are imbued with as vivid a sense of both time and place as Provincial, the debut longplayer from John K. Samson (January 24, ANTI-). Best known as the founder, frontman and songsmith for critically lauded indie band The Weakerthans, Samson drifts from rough hewn folk to loose, rough and tumble alt/rock, transforming and fleshing out songs from a pair of earlier EP's while adding a handful of new tracks. Songs such as the prairie anthem "Highway One West" and punk gloried "When I Write My Masters Thesis" ignite with an R.E.M-meets-Neil Young fervor while "Heart of the Continent" and "Letter In Icelandic from the Ninette San" (named after his Manitoba town) scurry amidst toe-tapped rhythms and layers of acoustic guitars, vivid lyrical portraits and raw landscapes of uplift and despair seen through the eyes of someone who lives there.

John K. Samson - "Letter In Icelandic from the Ninette San" (from Provincial)

John K. Samson - "The Last And" (from Provincial)

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