Left and Leaving
{{Infobox album
| name = Left and Leaving
| type = studio
| artist = The Weakerthans
| cover = The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving cover.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{start date|2000|07|25}}
| recorded = February–April 2000
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Indie rock
| length = 51:46
| label = G7 Welcoming Committee
| producer = Ian Blurton
| prev_title = Fallow
| prev_year = 1997
| next_title = Reconstruction Site
| next_year = 2003
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Left and Leaving
| type = studio
| single1 = Watermark
| single1date = January 31, 2001
}}
}}
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r490447/review|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]
|rev3= Pitchfork
|rev4= PopMatters
|rev4score= (very favorable){{cite web | url=http://www.popmatters.com/review/weatherthans-left/ | title=Left and Leaving Review | work=PopMatters | accessdate=30 June 2016 | author=Hart, Jeremy}}
|rev2=Robert Christgau
|rev2score={{rating-Christgau|cut}}{{cite web | url=http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=weakerthans | title=Consumer Guide: The Weakerthans | accessdate=30 June 2016 | author=Christgau, Robert}}
|rev5=Punknews.org
|rev5score={{rating|5|5}}{{cite web | url=https://www.punknews.org/review/564/the-weakerthans-left-and-leaving | title=Left and Leaving Review | work=Punknews.org | date=22 September 2001 | accessdate=30 June 2016 | author=PJ}}
}}
Left and Leaving is the second studio album by The Weakerthans, released July 25, 2000, on G7 Welcoming Committee Records.
In Chart magazine's 2005 poll of the Top 50 Canadian albums of all time, Left and Leaving ranked in sixth place.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}} It was also nominated for Alternative Album of the Year at the 2001 Juno Awards.
"Aside" is on the soundtrack of the film Wedding Crashers. A punked-up alternate version of "My Favourite Chords", retitled "My Favourite Power Chords", appears on G7 Welcoming Committee's 2005 promotional compilation Take Penacilin Now.
Epitaph Records, the band's current label, rereleased Left and Leaving (along with Fallow) in 2007.{{Cite web |url=http://www.punktastic.com/news/epitaph-to-re-release-weakerthans-records/ |title=Epitaph to re-release Weakerthans records |date=2007-10-24 |website=Punktastic |language=en-GB |access-date=2018-07-06}}
Track listing
{{track listing
| all_music = John K. Samson, Jason Tait, John P. Sutton, Stephen Carroll
| all_lyrics = John K. Samson
| title1 = Everything Must Go!
| length1 = 4:35
| title2 = Aside
| length2 = 3:21
| title3 = Watermark
| length3 = 2:38
| title4 = Pamphleteer
| length4 = 5:16
| title5 = This Is a Fire Door, Never Leave Open
| length5 = 5:07
| title6 = Without Mythologies
| length6 = 3:12
| title7 = Left and Leaving
| length7 = 4:45
| title8 = Elegy for Elsabet
| length8 = 6:20
| title9 = History to the Defeated
| length9 = 3:55
| title10 = Exiles Among You
| length10 = 5:11
| title11 = My Favourite Chords
| length11 = 4:27
| title12 = Slips and Tangles
| length12 = 3:00
}}
References
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Further reading
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- {{cite magazine | url=http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2001/02/0607.cfm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930033136/http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2001/02/0607.cfm | archive-date=2007-09-30 | title=CD REVIEWS: Ladytron, Tricky EP, Raised Fist, Tram and many more | access-date=2009-10-08 | magazine=Chart | date=2001-02-06 | first=Brian | url-status=usurped | last=Pascual }}
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