Lost Cause (Jandek album)

Lost Cause is the twenty-first album by Jandek, and his only of 1992. Corwood Industries release #0759, it marks the end of the "electric phase" and, really, of an era. It features a little of all the styles on the previous twenty albums, and ends with a very raucous sidelong abstract improvisation called "The Electric End."

Lost Cause
Studio album by
Released1992
RecordedUnknown
Genre
Length43:13
LabelCorwood Industries
ProducerCorwood Industries
Jandek chronology
One Foot in the North
(1991)
Lost Cause
(1992)
Twelfth Apostle
(1993)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Green and Yellow"4:10
2."Babe I Love You"4:13
3."Cellar"1:48
4."How Many Places"3:03
5."Crack a Smile"3:09
6."God Came Between Us"3:33
7."I Love You Now it's True"2:59
8."The Electric End"19:39
Total length:43:13

Reviews

Side one has 7 non-datable tracks of depressed blues-destroying ramble... Early optimism on the opening tracks transmutes into full desolation by the closing hack-gulps at the end... “The Electric End” is a nineteen-plus minute excursion into frothful extremes. Piercing electro-search guitar, revolutionary ultra-primitive drumming, lost-mind vocalism of real cracked creation and some sort of high end squeal (a penny whistle?) combine in an incredibly wasted fashion.

-- Jimmy Johnson Forced Exposure #18

References

  1. Jansen, Skip. Lost Cause at AllMusic
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