PERHAPS THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE LOGICAL STARTING POINT WHAT WITH IT BEING JIM'S FIRST ACTUAL RECORD BUT THE TAGS ARE THERE TO YOUR RIGHT, NAVIGATE THEM AND IMPOSE YOUR OWN LOGIC ON THIS PROJECT. I DOUBT I'LL BE ABLE TO.
SOME KIND OF PAGAN PRESENTS ITSELF ON THE LABEL AS SOLO GUITAR AND I SUPPOSE IN A WAY THAT IS TRUE BUT ALSO THERE APPEAR TO BE SOME SUBTLE INTERVENTIONS AND ACCOMPANIMENTS FROM PERCUSSION BUT NO! IT IS GUITAR. JUST GUITAR. LONELY, DARK, INDUSTRIAL-SOUNDING GUITAR (INDUSTRIAL AS IN ACTUAL FACTORIES RATHER THAN IDK MINISTRY).
I LIKE THIS. MAYBE IT IS THE SUNBAKED QUALITY TAPE UNEARTHINGS GIVE IT BUT THERE'S A ROBERT TURMAN-ESQUE FEEL HERE, MAYBE EVEN A LITTLE BIT OF FRENCH ARTIST BRUME TOO. A LITTLE DOOR OPENING TO AN UNDERGROUND PORTAL WHERE THE RULES ARE SUBTLY DIFFERENT.
IT COULD BE CONSIDERED TRIPPY BUT RATHER THAN PSYCHEDELIC, WHICH SEEMS TO ME TO CONNOTE AN ALTERED STATE, THIS IS LIKE A RECORD OF INTENSE SOBER CONCENTRATION. ONE THAT LEAVES YOU EXHAUSTED AFTERWARD, BUT GLAD YOU DID IT.
EITHER WAY THIS ONE GETS A CERTIFIED: GOOD.
PS. I FOUND THIS ARTICLE WHILE WRITING THIS, WHICH GIVES A GOOD ENTRYWAY INTO VARIOUS ASPECTS OF JIM'S DISCOGRAPHY. WHAT IS ODD IS THAT THIS PERSON COULD BE ME INASMUCH AS I THINK A LOT OF WHAT HE THINKS ABOUT THE RECORDS AND ALSO HATES STEELY DAN. WEIRD.
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