Label: Epitaph
Reissued 4/28/2023, Originally released 2003
Reconstruction Site is the third studio album by The Weakerthans, released in 2003. A song cycle about grief, regret, loss and eventual hope, the album is thematically framed by three tracks, "(Manifest)", "(Hospital Vespers)" and "(Past-Due)", which set three different sonnets following a terminally ill hospital patient into the aftermath of his death to the same melody.
Track listing:
- (Manifest)
- The Reasons
- Reconstruction Site
- Psalm For The Elks Lodge Last Call
- Plea From A Cat Named Virtute
- Our Retired Explorer (Dines With Michel Foucault In Paris, 1961)
- Time's Arrow
- (Hospital Vespers)
- Uncorrected Proofs
- A New Name For Everything
- One Great City!
- Benediction
- The Presence Of Dawn
- (Past Due)