Regard the End

Regard the End
Studio album by Willard Grant Conspiracy
Released	June 2003
Recorded	Ljubljana, Slovenia
Genre	Americana Alt-Country
Length	47:00
Label	Loose Music Glitterhouse Records Kimchee Records
Producer	Simon Alpin, Robert Fisher
Willard Grant Conspiracy chronology
In the Fishtank 8 (2002) Regard the End (2003) There But for The Grace of God (2004)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	80/100 [1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Austin Chronicle	[3]
E!	B [4]
Entertainment Weekly	B+ [5]
Mojo	[6]
Pitchfork	3.9/10 [7]
Rolling Stone	[8]
Uncut	10/10 [9]

Regard the End is the sixth full album by alt-country band Willard Grant Conspiracy.

The song "Soft Hand" is used in the 2003 film Stuck on You .

Track listing

All music written by Robert Fisher.

1. "River in the Pines" – 4:45
2. "The Trials of Harrison Hayes" – 3:16
3. "Beyond the Shore" – 3:13
4. "The Ghost of the Girl in the Well" – 4:50
5. "Twistification" – 5:23
6. "Another Man Is Gone" – 3:22
7. "Soft Hand" – 5:43
8. "Rosalee" – 3:31
9. "Fare Thee Well" – 4:09
10. "Day Is Passed and Gone" – 1:46
11. "The Suffering Song" – 7:51

Personnel

Eighteen musicians collaborated on the record including:

• Robert Fisher
• Simon Alpin
• Chris Eckman (The Walkabouts)
• Kristin Hersh
• Blake Hazard
• Jess Klein
• Pete Sutton
• Nathan Logus
• David Michael Curry
• Dennis Cronin
• Paul Austin (The Transmissionary Six)

References

1. "Reviews for Regard The End by Willard Grant Conspiracy". Metacritic . Retrieved April 27, 2025.
2. "Regard the End - Willard Grant Conspiracy | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic .
3. Caligiuri, Jim (March 19, 2004). "Willard Grant Conspiracy - Regard the End". The Austin Chronicle . Retrieved April 27, 2025.
4. "Willard Grant Conspiracy - Regard the End". E! Online . February 17, 2004. Archived from the original on March 21, 2004. Retrieved April 27, 2025.
5. As always, it's historically rooted music fired by present-tense passion. [20 Feb 2004, p.67]
6. While their material lacks the instant hooks of attention-snaring contemporaries like The Handsome Family, [it] rings with a robust authenticity. [Jul 2003, p.112]
7. Robertson, Neil (March 8, 2004). "Regard the End - Willard Grant Conspiracy". Pitchfork . Retrieved April 27, 2025.
8. Rollingstone
9. In ditching the band ethic, they've tapped into the finest folk gothic traditions of death, suffering, misery and hardship and fashioned a paradoxically uplifting, transformative record of extraordinary power. [Album of the Month, Jul 2003, p.110]