This brief EP, released in 1997, opens with the brisk one and a quarter minute strum Pass, which kind of stops before it gets going. The material here is oblique, not easily penetrated. Defenders is the most funereal, slow-paced tune imaginable, Jason Molina wailing intermittently over the sparse chords. The dusky, strutting Declarer evokes early Smog, and is one of the better tracks here. The sparse nature of the material allows subtle musical touches, such as the piano part at the end of Easts Last Heart, to stand out. Penultimate track Advice to Aces, is a fine downbeat strum, almost harking back to early Cure as Molina muses "winter is over...", before it ends abruptly. He finishes with a very country Conway Twitty cover of Darling.
Probably not the ideal place to start with Molina.
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