The Search – Deluxe Reissue

Son Volt

SKU: TS2018LP

Barcode: 752830933644

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Led by the songwriting and vocals of Jay Farrar, Son Volt was one of the most instrumental and influential bands in launching the alt-country movement of the 1990’s. Originally released in 2007, and out of print for the past several years, this deluxe reissue of The Search features bonus content. The Search takes Jay Farrar’s signature juxtapositions of the arcane and the modern to provocative extremes, contrasting the blue highways of a disappearing cultural landscape with a perilous world in which the center no longer holds – a world of information overload, of clueless leaders carrying out sinister agendas, of “Hurricanes in December – earthquakes in the heartland / Bad air index on a flashing warning sign,” as the artist sings ruefully on The Picture. The Search’s 14 songs locate and vividly portray the prevailing modes of the human condition in the first decade of the 21st century: cynicism (Beacon Soul), reflection (The Search), restlessness (L Train, Highways and Cigarettes), yearning (Adrenaline and Heresy), paranoia (Automatic Society), despair (Methamphetamine) and conditional hopefulness (Underground Dream, Phosphate Skin). By turns melancholy and exhilarating, the album further cements Farrar’s status as one of rock’s most eloquent chroniclers of contemporary existence.

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Track Listings

Slow Hearse - 2:32
The Picture - 3:27
Action - 2:48
Underground Dream - 4:32
Circadian Rhythm - 5:02
Beacon Soul - 2:31
The Search - 2:59
Adrenaline and Heresy - 5:05
Satellite - 2:14
Automatic Society - 2:26
Methamphetamine - 4:02
L Train - 2:58
Highways and Cigarettes - 3:54
Phosphate Skin - 3:52

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