O’Rourke, Jim - Insignificance vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed)
SKU
05-DC 202LP
"Insignificance consists of rock plus multiple musical allusions, layers of discreet noises, great playing from all the players and, to top it off, funny pop tunes laced with lyrical arsenic. As the moving finger of O'Rourke points (and clicks...just kidding! Insignificance is an all-analog affair), moments will come and go -- to remind you of other moments. Moments will arrive that have no precedent. And different, conflicting emotions will flash within you. He'll have total control of you, the helpless listener."
"Many other key figures in Chicago music played on Insignificance. Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy and Glenn Kotche, O’Rourke’s bandmates in Loose Fur, are all over the record, Kotche commingling with percussionist Tim Barnes to create a uniquely complex rhythmic backbone. Bassist Darin Gray of Brise-Glace is in there, as are eminent jazz guys Rob Mazurek and Ken Vandermark on cornet and sax respectively. Veteran pedal steel player Ken Champion, “a fixture on Chicago indie rock sessions” at the time, lends weeping allure to the quiet acoustic ballad “Good Times.” Together they combine into electro-acoustic suites that call back to ’70s staples from Steely Dan to Jim Croce to Yes, all while maintaining the visceral edge of an indie rock record recorded made quickly on a budget." - Stereogum
- LabelDrag City
- UPC781484020219