Jackie O MotherfuckerBest Jackie O Motherfucker Albums Ranked

Fig. 5 (Reissue)

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9.2

“In America, we have monuments instead of mythology: bright obelisks and classical statuary erected as perpetually new in the place of the perpetually old. This is, after all, the New World; we dedicate these talismans against ruin across the landscape almost as if to keep history itself at bay, to keep time from catching up with us. Underfoot are bones and detritus, though, the debris of the littl”

Wow! / The Magick Fire Music

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8.4

“I'm gonna let all you indie kids in on a secret: There are at least three writers on the current Pitchfork roster that-- oh my god-- enjoy the music of the Grateful Dead. Personally, I go for *Anthem of the Sun*, while Rob Mitchum's favorite era is '77-'78, featuring the Godcheauxs. Heck, the Richardson household even owns that atrocious disco album the Dead made. So we love us some freedom rock,”

Flags of the Sacred Harp

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8.1

“Portland-based collective builds on the lessons of The Sacred Harp and other traditional blues and gospel sources on this evocative yet deeply personal LP.”

Liberation (Reissue)

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8.0

“The late French historian Ferdinand Braudel demanded that history be written in the *longue duree*. History's typical subject matter, politics and war, were but weather fluttering above the passage of a deeper time-- the time of soil and seas, the rise and fall of populations, the global transit of diseases, the expansion of economies. Beneath the speeches and explosions, history creeps along in t”

Valley of Fire

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7.6

“Though the Portland band no longer has an ear for true sonic disruption, their latest has enough subtle idiosyncrasies to outpace its predecessor, 2005's almost sycophantically reverent Flags of the Sacred Harp.”

Earth Sound System

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5.6

“Latest from the long-running Portland collective maintains the group's experimental streak but loses some of the tension that defined its best work.”