Magnolia Electric Co. – “Leave The City” From a Landline Telephone

Ok, I know it sounds a bit cliche- but I’m a kid from the midwest who made his way out to LA, so any song about leaving cities and broken hearts always seems to resonate with me pretty strongly. Thus, you can be pretty sure that the song “Leave The City” off Magnolia Electric Co.’s 2005 album Trials & Errors hit home (literally) with an opening line like “It broke my heart to leave the city…”.  After scouring the ole’ interweb for some information on the band (as I stumbled across the song via a mixtape) I found a chilling rendition from a radio interview recorded from a land-line telephone.  The raw emotion and distorted vocals are blown out with passion resulting in one of the most beautifully haunting songs I’ve heard in sometime.  Listen to it below, along with the original and The North Star Blues version.  Do yourself a favor and check out the rest of the songs from the radio interview here (via Pop Headwound)