Search - Jandek :: The Living End

Pure blues at heart

Jackson Diner | Arkansas | 04/25/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This was one of the many albums to be released within Jandek's blues-folk stage midway through his career. Albums like Living End, Follow your Footsteps, and, of course, Blue Corpse posess a unique instrumental and vocal quality that has never been heard in a Jandek album before. It's a style of deconstructed blues which moans and groans, but has more of a peaceful, stable mood as opposed to the entropetic explosions in albums like Interstellar Discussion. In much of this album we hear Jandek playing acoustic guitar with the backing of "Eddy" on electric and occasionally "Nancy" on vocals or "John" on drums. Nancy sings the song "Crazy," which is probably the most powerful song on the album. Although it doesn't really rank with Blue Corpse and Follow your Footsteps, I still highly reccomend this album."