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."
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Released | 1992 | |||
Recorded | Unknown | |||
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Length | 43:13 | |||
Label | Corwood Industries | |||
Producer | Corwood Industries | |||
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
Track listing
No. | Title | Length |
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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
- Jansen, Skip. Lost Cause at AllMusic