donderdag 29 oktober 2015

Capsule review: Jim O'Rourke - Simple songs (2015)


People say he keeps emotions at arm's length, but sardonic people are just the same as you and me, baby. No one translates that brain frequency like Jim. On the surface a successor to 2001's Insignificance, this is way deeper into '70s art song. The piano is central, the guitar tone is pure early wave progressive rock. Jim is still Jim and no one does it better. Side B ('Last year' / 'End of the road' / 'All your love') is so perfect it's almost sleazy. He's lucky the thought police is busy with less subtle perpetrators.

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