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What the cathartic Fading Trails might lack in foot-tapping motivation, it makes up for in passion and honesty and is highly recommended for those who like to dig a little deeper for albums that get better each time they are played.
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The full-band songs rarely manage the sort of charismatic country-rock crunchiness that made What Comes After the Blues so endearing on repeated listen. On the other hand, the solo tracks can’t really match up to the almost uniformly excellent offerings on Let Me Go.
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With its restructured band lineup and multiple producers/locations, Fading Trails is unavoidably a somewhat dispirited and disjointed affair.
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Despite the relatively heavy guitars and relatively dense production, you’ll notice a similarity to the smart, earnest, complex material Molina played as Songs: Ohia.
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I'd say Fading Trails is the best Magnolia's done, unless you count the nominally Songs:Ohia-made Magnolia Electric Co., which I do, and which is still the best Molina product out.
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Fading Trails shows he's capable of being a striking indie-rock personality.
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The growing sense that Molina released this record last year--and will probably release it again next year--is frustrating.
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Fading Trails feels like a handful of decent songs that, thrown together seemingly at random, form an unfortunate snooze of a record.
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UncutMolina's at the top of his lonesome game throughout. [Oct 2006, p.117]
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MagnetOne of Molina's strongest, most interesting records yet. [#73, p.96]
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Paste MagazineUnlike previous MagCo. releases, it finally feels like the band has achieved a unifying cohesiveness. [Nov 2006, p.79]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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MattHOct 1, 2006
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AlexFSep 20, 2006