Reunion Tour (album)

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Reunion Tour
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ReleasedSeptember 25, 2007
RecordedMarch 2007
Genre Indie rock
Length37:06
Label Epitaph, ANTI-
Producer Ian Blurton
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Reconstruction Site
(2003)
Reunion Tour
(2007)
Live Session EP
(2009)
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Reunion Tour is the fourth studio album by The Weakerthans, released on September 25, 2007, in Canada and the U.S. [1] [2] The album was released on both compact disc and vinyl record. [2]

Contents

The album was produced by Ian Blurton, who previously produced Left and Leaving and Reconstruction Site for the band. Blurton has described the album as the band's most experimental to date, [3] and guitarist Stephen Carroll told Uptown that the album features "lots of ambient stuff, tape loops, and some more keyboard than before". [3]

Prior to the album's release, the band released mock "webisodes" about the making of the record on the Epitaph Records website. [4]

Chart performance

The album debuted at #22 on the Nielsen SoundScan chart for Canada in its first week of release, and at #4 on the alternative/modern rock chart.

Awards and nominations

The album was nominated for the 2008 Polaris Music Prize. [5]

Track listing

  1. "Civil Twilight" – 3:17
  2. "Hymn of the Medical Oddity" – 3:08
  3. "Relative Surplus Value" – 2:37
  4. "Tournament of Hearts" – 3:34
  5. "Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure" – 4:08
  6. "Elegy for Gump Worsley" – 2:43
  7. "Sun in an Empty Room" – 4:00
  8. "Night Windows" – 4:35
  9. "Bigfoot!" – 2:23
  10. "Reunion Tour" – 2:07
  11. "Utilities" – 4:34

Song notes

"Civil Twilight"

"Hymn of the Medical Oddity"

"Relative Surplus Value"

"Tournament of Hearts"

"Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure"

"Elegy for Gump Worsley"

"Sun in an Empty Room"

"Night Windows"

"Bigfoot!"

"Reunion Tour"

"Utilities"

Personnel

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References

  1. PunkNews.org.
  2. 1 2 3 Reunion Tour Digital Liner Notes on Anti.com.
  3. 1 2 Uptownmag.com Feature.
  4. Weakerthans webisodes. Under the "just in" tab on the left-hand side.
  5. Polaris Music Prize
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