{"id":497,"date":"2010-02-04T09:38:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T15:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=497"},"modified":"2010-02-04T09:38:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T15:38:13","slug":"review-molina-and-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2010\/02\/04\/review-molina-and-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Molina and Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MOLINA AND JOHNSON<br \/>\n<em>Molina and Johnson<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-498\" title=\"molina-and-jonson\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/molina-and-jonson.jpg\" alt=\"molina-and-jonson\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/>Collaborations like this always sound good in theory. Both great artists in their own right\u2014Will Johnson, the largely unsung helmsman of Centro-Matic and South San Gabriel, and Jason Molina, the well-seasoned songwriter behind Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co.\u2014Molina and Johnson should be an exercise in one-upmanship, a chance to push and be pushed. There are some worthy songs here and it\u2019s hard not be intrigued with such a beautiful album cover. But apart from Johnson\u2019s wistful \u201cAll Gone, All Gone\u201d with Sarah Jaffe, the death-rattle duet of \u201cNow, Divide,\u201d and the duo\u2019s most developed effort, \u201cAlmost Let You In,\u201d the album is chock full of old fashioned molasses. Especially after the half-way point, it takes real effort to stay interested in the fractured piano\/guitar template and the particularly unmemorable solos of\u00a0 \u201cLenore\u2019s Lullaby\u201d and \u201cEach Star Marks A Day.\u201d If Molina and Johnson took the time to explore some of the differences and dynamics between their respective approaches, this could have been an interesting record. Instead, echoing Johnson\u2019s words, it sounds like these boys are \u201cjust passing through.\u201d (Secretly Canadian, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secretlycanadian.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.secretlycanadian.com<\/a>) <strong>Jonathan Dyck<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOLINA AND JOHNSON Molina and Johnson Collaborations like this always sound good in theory. Both great artists in their own right\u2014Will Johnson, the largely unsung helmsman of Centro-Matic and South San Gabriel, and Jason Molina, the well-seasoned songwriter behind Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co.\u2014Molina and Johnson should be an exercise in one-upmanship, a chance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[468,1101],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-jason-molina","tag-will-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}