Living in a Moon So Blue

Living in a Moon so Blue is an album that's very hard to separate from its near-counterpart, Staring at the Cellophane. Both albums feature the same parlor guitar on the cover (just from slightly different views) and the contents are remarkably similar, with Jandek delving further into the deep, anarchic blues while putting aside - for now - the female vocals and any instruments besides guitar, vocals and harmonica.

The albums are also distinguished by lean, blues-flavored songs with minimal lyrics, though these lyrics can run from brutal to humorously baffling ("Please don't push any buttons on this machine/On what machine?/Wet paint/Get out" form the entirety of "Bludgeon," for instance). The music itself runs from fast, rhythmic blues pounded out on the oddly-tuned strings to slow, picked ballads. The vocals are at times otherworldly, at times visceral, and at times barely there at all.

[edit] Track listing

"Gretchen" – 2:48
"One Step Ahead" – 2:12
"Suppression" – 2:10
"Strange Phenomenon" – 3:11
"You Can Stop Now" – 2:20
"Comedy" – 1:52
"Sailors" – 1:46
"Bludgeon" – 1:47
"All in an Apple Orchard" – 2:32
"She Fell Down" – 3:26
"Professional" – 2:26
"Anticipation" – 2:35
"Alexandria Knows" – 2:32
"Quite Nonchalant" – 2:15
"Relief of the Night" – 3:19
"Crime Pays" – 2:56

[edit] Album cover description

A well-centered acoustic guitar with guitar strap leans against a featureless wall. Beneath the guitar's bridge, the guitar has a roughly rectangular glare. It appears to be a classical guitar or at least has a classical headstock as the tuning pegs seem to be facing backwards rather than out from the sides. There is what appears to be glitter around the outside edge of the soundboard, and around the soundhole. This suggests to me either an inexpensive guitar or a homemade finish.^{[original research?]} Someone must have some feelings about it in order to take such a flattering photograph.