Insignificance (Jim O'Rourke album)

Insignificance
Studio album by Jim O'Rourke
Released November 19, 2001
Recorded 2001
Genre Indie rock, alt-country, art rock
Length 38:25
Label Drag City
Producer Jim O'Rourke
Jeremy Lemos
Konrad Strauss
Jim O'Rourke chronology

Halfway to a Threeway
(1999)
Insignificance
(2001)
I’m Happy and I’m Singing and a 1, 2, 3, 4
(2001)

Insignificance is an album by American musician Jim O'Rourke. It was released on Drag City in 2001. It is the third of three albums recorded by O'Rourke to be named after films by Nicolas Roeg, and features percussionist Tim Barnes, Jeff Tweedy and Glenn Kotche of Wilco (both of whom O'Rourke would later collaborate with as Loose Fur).

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Pitchfork Media (8.0/10)[2]

The online music magazine Pitchfork Media placed Insignificance at number 166 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s.[3]

Track listing

  1. "All Downhill from Here" - 4:59
  2. "Insignificance" - 5:12
  3. "Therefore, I Am" - 4:53
  4. "Memory Lame" - 5:57
  5. "Good Times" - 4:04
  6. "Get a Room" - 6:58
  7. "Life Goes Off" - 6:22

Notes

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Pitchfork Media review
  3. Pitchfork staff (September 28, 2009). "The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s: 200-151". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved October 1, 2009.