Jandek - " Six and Six " (Corwood 0740) 1981

SIX AND SIX

Songs

Side 1: Feathered Drums (3:27) / Point Judith (4:32) / I Knew You Would Leave (10:06) / Can I See Your Clock (2:29); Side 2: Wild Strawberries (6:00) / Forgive Me (3:58) / Hilltop Serenade (Part 1, 3:50; Part 2, 1:23) / You’re the Best One (2:52) / Delinquent Words (3:43)

Lyrics

Three year gap between the first two LP’s — Jandek’s lost years.Musically, this is the most catatonic and monochromatic Jandek LP, the most sullen and withdrawn. The songs drift past one by one like ships in the fog, propelled by an acoustic guitarist working slow, steady variations on the same handful of cracked notes. Even more than the first LP, this is the distilled essence of Jandek, the baseline from which the rest of his music develops. Though the songs here are only minimally differentiated musically, the lyrics are uncommonly vivid, poetic, and far-ranging. “Oh universe!” Jandek sings “on a journey to the stars”, but his spaceship’s full of all kinds of junk from Earth: spiders, a phonograph, some mica, a clown suit, the Tree of Knowledge. Several songs are sea-themed. On many later albums Jandek will be floating down a river; these are his thoughts once he’s reached the ocean. It’s low tide.

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