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Reunion Tour

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Released
  
September 25, 2007

Length
  
37:06

Artist
  
The Weakerthans

Producer
  
Ian Blurton

Genres
  
Indie rock, Folk punk

Recorded
  
March 2007

Reunion Tour (2007)
  
Live Session EP (2009)

Release date
  
25 September 2007

Label
  
Shock Records

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Similar
  
Left and Leaving, Fallow, Live at the Burton Cumming, The Falcon Lake Incident, Winter Wheat

The weakerthans reunion tour


Reunion Tour is the fourth studio album by The Weakerthans, released on September 25, 2007, in Canada and the U.S. The album was released on both compact disc and vinyl record.

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, and guitarist Stephen Carroll told Uptown that the album features "lots of ambient stuff, tape loops, and some more keyboard than before".

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

The weakerthans reunion tour webisode 1


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.

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

Personnel

  • Stephen Carroll – guitars, vocals, pedal steel, keyboards
  • John K. Samson – vocals, guitars, keyboards
  • Greg Smith – bass, vocals, keyboards
  • Jason Tait – drums, percussion, vibes, glockenspiel, keyboards, banjo, loops
  • Michael Barth – trumpet ("Reunion Tour", "Bigfoot!")
  • Tyler Greenleaf – trombone ("Reunion Tour", "Bigfoot!")
  • Izabella Budai – flute ("Reunion Tour")
  • Sean Dealey – additional snare rolls ("Reunion Tour")
  • Julie Penner – trumpet ("Elegy for Gump Worsley")

    • Songs

    1Civil Twilight3:18
    2Hymn of the Medical Oddity3:08
    3Relative Surplus Value2:38

    References

    Reunion Tour Wikipedia
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