Lost Cause

Lost Cause is an album by Jandek (1992). Corwood Industries release #0759.

Track Listing:

1. Babe I Love You
2. Cellar
3. Crack a Smile
4. God Came Between Us
5. Green and Yellow
6. How Many Places
7. I Love You Now It's True
8. The Electric End

Album Cover Description Color snapshot of head and shoulders of Boy Jandek, looking about 17 although it's hard to tell, wearing a plaid shirt and standing in front of a curtain (apparently Jandek's liking for drawn curtains is of long standing). His hair is cut conservatively short, the only such photo of him (although he looks a little older than the Follow Your Footsteps cover guitarist, who clearly hadn't had a haircut in quite some time). -- Seth Tisue

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

Outside Links

• Seth Tisue's Lost Cause review (http://tisue.net/jandek/discog#0759)