The artwork on Put My Dream On This Planet is probably Jandek's most abstracted and bold statement – a blurred, dark, obscure photo of 'the artist.' Yep, Jandek is going through his abstract expressionist stage. Sure it's acapella, though it seems that Jandek has edited chunks of vocals in a Burroughsian lyrical cut-up style. It's hard listening, considering there's only 3 tracks and two of them go for over 20 minutes. But the most interesting thing to note is the fact that the voice has changed. Obviously there was a long break in recording – maybe for the whole '90's? – but here Jandek sounds like a guy who's at least in his late '40's, compared to the 20-30 something that appeared on nearly all his previous recordings. This Narrow Road continues the cut-up vocal trend, the pieces are shorter, and come off more like vocal ballads or as stated on the Forced Exposure website, some sort of 21st Century 'Out Blues.' Worthless Recluse does away with any tunefulness and goes for straight ahead spoken word inter-galactic beat poetry, a perfect sonic distillation of Burroughs' aforementioned cut-up techniques. Why this hasn't been taken more seriously by the spoken-words/poetry scene as a major work is a travesty of the highest order.
Tracklist:
1 I Need Your Life
2 It's Your House
3 I Went Outside
Download:
https://mega.co.nz/#!slsAHCTS!YL_Et2jDSp4C9wT-idPyMdQWapPkgLJSaahf6qS_S5U
