JANDEK The Living End LP Corwood Industries 1989
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Description
Includes Corwood Industries catalogue sheet.
Tracklist
A1 Niagra Blues 3:41
A2 Janitor’s Dead 3:00
A3 Slinky Parade 4:31
A4 The Living End 2:17
A5 License To Kill 2:32
A6 Talk That Talk 6:25
B1 Start The Band 1:32
B2 Girl From America 1:53
B3 Embrace The World Outside 2:03
B4 In A Hush 2:45
B5 Take Me Away With You 6:50
B6 Crazy 4:16
Glen Thrasher, LowLife #16, pg. 32. “There is a special solitary beauty to everything that comes from the Corwood Post Office Box that nothing else in the entire ‘recording industry’ can approximate.”
uncredited, CMJ #211, November 1990. “ ...the mysterious Jandek has remained the most solitary and impenetrable of blues travelers, and on The Living End, he’s got dem old lonesome, downhearted brown-acid blooze again. Most of this album features the prominent vocal stylings of the mysterious uncredited female vocalist (Mrs. Jandek?) whose eerie and disembodied presence has been felt on numerous Jandek projects, but never so thoroughly or deeply as here. She langours and languishes through metaphysical duets with the master (flashing back to a young Grace Slick in a cracked jam at the Airplane House circa `66), as the two partake in a rambling metaphysical discourse reminiscent of John and Yoko’s spoken word/groan Plastic Ono collaborations like Two Virgins or Life With The Lions. There’s plenty of the off-kilter blues cacophony you’d expect from a good Jandek album — thunderous, detuned tom-toms and plunky, cracked-neck guitars — but Jandek seems to be pulling it all with him toward some unknown spiritual destination, a bit like an avant-garde Van Morrison or a deconstructed Marvin Gaye. It’s either totally deep or totally junk, but if he goes to such pains as to include a minuet (‘Pastimes’), a monastic chant (‘Om’) and a whole song constructed from plinking those little bits of the strings down by the guitar’s bridge, he has to have some idea what he’s doing.”
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