Worthless Recluse

Worthless Recluse is an album by Jandek (2001). Corwood Industries release #0769.

Track Listing:

1. Aimless Breeze
2. In the Cave
3. Interlude
4. Lofty Rider
5. Out of the Cave
6. Stopped
7. The Clothes
8. The Dunes
9. The Stars Spell Your Name
10. Worthless Recluse
11. You Wake Up Deadmen
12. You Won't Get Up
13. Your Turn

Album Cover Description Teenage Jandek stands in a barnyard. His hair is cropped short; the photo looks roughly contemporaneous with the Lost Cause cover photo. Bales of hay are stacked in the barn and a cat is emerging from the barn door. Jandek's wearing a gray cardigan sweater and the lapel points of his white shirt are sticking out. His hands are in his pockets. I'm guessing from the setting and from the relatively formal clothes that this photo might have been taken during a holiday visit to a farmer relative. -- Seth Tisue

Reviews From Aquarius Records:
Unfortunately fulfills the self-effacing title, as the Texan hermit offers his third album of a capella ‘songs’ and poetic readings. As difficult as they may have been to listen to, his arrangements for questionably competent guitar picking and stumbling drums are sorely missed. While these a capella albums are at the bottom of the Jandek catalogue, he has been mucking about with his 4 track giving a few interesting ‘effects’ upon his voice. But that’s all...

Outside Links

• Seth Tisue's Worthless Recluse review (http://tisue.net/jandek/discog#0769)