Selling Points
1. Highly anticipated and long awaited sophomore solo Jason Molina recording.
2. Jason Molina is the creator and leader of successful bands Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co.
3. Previous Molina solo recording, Pyramid Electric Co., was also LP only and sold 8,000 copies.
4. Every copy of the LP will be packaged with a CD version.
5. Magnolia Electric Co. Will be doing a U.S, tour just prior and right after release date.

I wanted badly to revisit the type of songs I did on my more experimental albums The Pyramid, The Ghost, and Protection Spells. I put this proj-

ect together in the last days before I began what was a long and harrowing move back to Chicago. I wrote these songs as well as the half dozen or

so that did not make it over the course of 3 mornings in Bloomington, Indiana and recorded them one after the other in the order they were writ-

ten.

Working method was to go into the garage (aka The Projects Studio) in the mornings and I would write one song at a time and record it. There

are no windows at all in that studio and it is pitch black around the clock. There was a small lamp rigged inside a vintage kickdrum and that eerie

thing burning above my head along with sparse candles was the extent of the lighting…with the occasional silent movie projected on the wall. The

place screamed doom as far as atmosphere goes and I put myself to the task of writing about what is human about that particular feeling; the con-

crete and tactile nature of depression and actually writing or working yourself out of that. The payoff is not always worth listening, let alone com-

mitting to a release, but in this session I knew I was not going to present these songs to the Magnolia Electric Co. in the first place. It gave me

the ability to explore some lyrical themes that simply don't need to be sung in competition with a full band. There are many moments of lyrical

improvisation, where I was more or less trying to keep as much of my mind focused on things I’d never put into words before and didn’t know if

I ever would get those moments again. So in a way, these are meditations on depression, waiting, dislocation, separation, doubt, fear,

loneliness…the usual from me…but here, if I did not see redemption or even a glimmer of hope, and thought I could put that into lyrics and a sim-

ple melody, I allowed that to be the driving force of the song. In the past I would edit these themes out or push them to the sides in favor of a bet-

ter line technically, or a more anticipated rhyme. This session, in my mind, leads easily into my upcoming projects.

All of this is an attempt to put a serious price on lyrics that are honest not witty, shy but not weak, weary if they are and sad without apology, depres-

sion without a fight and depression with a fight.

-Jason Molina

JASON MOLINA

LET ME GO, LET ME GO, LET ME GO

LABEL: Secretly Canadian
CAT #: SC149
FORMAT: LP
UPC #: 656605014913 LP

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LP BOX LOT: 45
STREET DATE: August 22nd, 2006

It's Easier Now • Everything Should Try Again • Alone With The Owl • Don't It Look Like Rain •

Some Things Never Try • It Must Be Raining There Forever • Get Out Get Out Get Out •

It Costs You Nothing • Let Me Go Let Me Go Let Me Go

CD: