M. Ward - End of Amnesia: 20th Anniversary Reissue [2LP/ Ltd Ed Colored Vinyl] (RSD 2021)

20th anniversary remastered reissue of M. Ward's sophomore album. End of Amnesia verifies the artist as one of those few songwriters who stand between the cracks of time, where he spins a hallucinatory, new universe out of old-world roots. Indeed, there's a real down-home, unpolished luster to End of Amnesia, both in execution and in songwriting, that gives it a timeless, old-fashioned pallor. And yet there's also something just slightly off in the songs, a strange, disembodied quality that seems to come at least partly from an ulterior place, be it real or imagined. That attribute is precisely what gives the music such a singular, distinctive sound and vision.

LP1

End Of Amnesia
Color Of Water
Half Moon
So Much Water
Bad Dreams
Archangel Tale
Silverline
Flaming Heart

LP2

Carolina
From A Pirate Radio Sermon, 1989
Psalm
Ella
Seashell Tale
O'Brien/O'Brien's Nocturne