Lost Cause (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."

Track listing

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

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

External links

• Seth Tisue's Lost Cause review