Jandek - " Later On " (corwood 0741) 1981

LATER ON

Side 1: Your Condition (5:16) / What Did I Hear (4:37) / Just Whisper (3:46) / Oh Jenny (3:40) / Until Then (2:20); Side 2: So Fly, Max (2:51) / The Janitor (3:31) / Don’t Know If I Care (2:30) / John Came (1:11) / Jessica (2:29) / Jackson’s Gone Down the Mississippi (2:37) / The Second End (3:17)

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Review excerpts

• Billy Kiely, Forced Exposure web site (http://www.forcedexposure.com/), 2000. “This record, like Jandek’s first (Ready for the House), is comprised of not just basically one chord throughout, but as far as I can tell he barely even touches the fret board of his guitar, using his instrument more for atmosphere and percussion than anything like a ‘song’. The usual lyrical motifs of the blues are all over the place, including women, roads, death, and even janitors, which in my tweaked view of the universe hearkens back to Howlin’ Wolf’s paean to a custodian on his last record ca. 1972 (‘Watergate Blues’), and much like the Loren Mazzacane Connors Unaccompanied Acoustic Guitar Improvisations Vols 1–9 1979–1980 box set reissue on Ecstatic Yod, this is proof that something that might be called the blues can be non-formulaic, just undiluted expression, and actually just a skeleton on which to drape a very whacked universe of your very own.”
• John Foster, Op issue N. “Personal songs... by... a hopeless amateur whose limited, rather unique guitar-playing tends to meld with his whispery vocals, taking on a trancelike ambience. For sheer tunelessness only Kenneth Higney’s Attic Demonstration comes to mind... you really have to force yourself to concentrate on it.”
• Eddie Flowers. Quoted at The History of Rock Music, Vol. 4 (website). “Some highlights: “Your Condition” is like Roky Erickson trying to remember a dylan song during a rest-hospital breakdown; the accusatory “What Did I Hear” blues with its shattered lyrics (“I guess there’s no such thing as today/ or any day”); rockin’ on “Just Whisper” like a detuned Lou Reed playing “I’m Waiting For the Man” in his sleep; the finger-pluckin’ “Until Then,” rough personal emotional, ripped straight from the heart of pre-WWII country blues; Jandek feeling out the lyrics in a jazz-like way on “So Fly, Max”; pleading for understanding from a doubtful God on “Don’t Know If I Care” and finding a surprisingly pleasant drone for a moment (but only a moment).”
• uncredited, Aquarius Records catalog (website), 2002?. “Later On is his second [sic] album of lithium-soaked folk; a pseudo-jangle on the guitar barely carrying a tune and daydreaming poetry crooned with a creepier voice-crack than Will Oldham could ever conjur. The mysteries of Jandek, personal and musical, may never be fully revealed, but his peculiar genius is highly recommended none the less.”
• Aaron Goldberg, web review for Perfect Sound Forever. “Jandek start to experiment with his ‘sound’... The album finds Jandek shifting moods in bi-polar frequency, and also finds him starting to attack the guitar rather than play. You can actually hear some of the tracks start to fall apart, offering some sweet respite with the beautiful ‘Jessica’ and ‘Jackson’s Gone Down the Mississippi’, only to fuck it all up with closer ‘The Second End’ that features the plunky, grating sound that will become more prevalent later in Jandek’s ‘career.’”

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