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Insignificance by Jim O'Rourke (CD, Dec-2001, Drag City) 
Insignificance by Jim O'Rourke (CD, Dec-2001, Drag City)

 
Insignificance by Jim O'Rourke (CD, Dec-2001, Drag City)

Artist: Jim O'Rourke
Release Date: Dec 2001
Format: CD
Record Label: Drag City
Genre: Experimental Rock, Rock & Pop
UPC: 781484020226
Product ID: EPID3477424
Description: Personnel includes: Jim O'Rourke, Tim Barnes, Darin Gray, Glenn Kotche, Jeff Tweedy, Rob Mazurek, Ken Vandermark, Ken Champion. Jim O'Rourke's second full-length solo album for Drag City has a similarly odd and vividly colored cartoon co...
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Track Listing
1. All Downhill From Here
2. Insignificance
3. Therefore, I Am
4. Memory Lame
5. Good Times
6. Get a Room
7. Life Goes Off

Details
Producer:Jim O'Rourke
Distributor:Caroline Distribution
Recording Type:Studio
Recording Mode:Stereo
SPAR Code:n/a

Album Notes
Personnel includes: Jim O'Rourke, Tim Barnes, Darin Gray, Glenn Kotche, Jeff Tweedy, Rob Mazurek, Ken Vandermark, Ken Champion.
Jim O'Rourke's second full-length solo album for Drag City has a similarly odd and vividly colored cartoon cover as 1999's EUREKA, but while it takes the pop experimentation of that album as a starting point, INSIGNIFICANCE goes considerably farther. This is Jim O'Rourke's most conventional indie rock album by some distance, with none of the 15-minute solo guitar instrumentals or noise experiments that colored his earlier albums.
Featuring vocals on every song for the first time in his career, O'Rourke makes a virtue of his somewhat thin voice in much the same way that James Mercer of the Shins does, by delivering his sometimes elliptical lyrics in an offhand, conversational tone that fits surprisingly well with the elaborate arrangements of songs such as the title track and "Get A Room." Where EUREKA sounded heavily influenced by Van Dyke Parks and the more baroque end of 1960s sunshine pop, INSIGNIFICANCE is a scrappier album, featuring more of the electric guitar assault that first made Jim O'Rourke's name.

Editorial Reviews
8 out of 10 - ...A work of unparalleled individual brilliance....It's the first unequivocal classic album of the new year...
NME (01/19/2002)

Ranked #38 in Uncut's 100 Best Albums of the Year - ...One of rock's more gifted artists...
Uncut (01/01/2003)

...He comes across like Bill Callahan [of Smog] in an unusually animated mood....spontaneous pop music which is melodic and accessible...
Mojo (02/01/2002)

7 out of 10 - ...INSIGNIFICANCE looks to '70s AOR....avoiding orchestration allow[s] the songs to breathe like old Creedence tunes...
Spin (03/01/2002)

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