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ARTIST
O'ROURKE, JIM
TITLE
Simple Songs
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
DRAG CITY
CATALOG #
DC 620CD
DC 620CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
5/19/2015
"Yes,
Simple Songs
is an album of songs sung by Jim O'Rourke all the way through! It has been ten years since Jim's voice rang out from a new album. Ah, when James Michael was just a wee lad, he sang all the time, with a lovely little lilt to his voice, like all the children do. But the songs he sang gave his parents no end of consternation: 'Great Decei-verrr! Cigarettes, ice cream, figurines... of the Vir-gin Mar-eeee!' Aye, if only we'd-a been there -- little Jimmy's career would have started much sooner. Child labor laws be damned! It's hard to believe it has been nearly fourteen years since
Insignificance
. When that album hit in late 2001, we heard once or twice how it was too bad that it wasn't
Eureka Part 2
. Sissies! Then in 2009, when
The Visitor
returned Jim to the orchestrated instrumental feel of
Bad Timing
, people wondered when we'd have another album like
Insignificance
! Grrrr.... now, has the world caught up with Jim? Maybe -- but only because he let us. What
Simple Songs
sounds like.... At this point, the range of sounds and songs that have turned Jim's head are numerous enough to have crushed together into something that is unmistakably his -- the vast, glossy and glittering O'Rourkian (yes, like Kervorkian) wall of sound. The music's got OCD quality, played so immaculately by so many instruments, and most of them by the creator's hand. This time's really the widest screen yet for Jim's popular song-style, truly breathtaking! As for the songs themselves, one may have to resist the urge to skim the lyrics to try and guess who the target of each ditty might be -- but this ain't 'You're So Vain,' okay kids? And you're definitely NOT Warren Beatty.
Simple Songs
was worked over, from source material to finished mix, for five years or more now. Jim's writing is kinda rooted in the approach of
Insignificance
-- frosted pop tarts that leave a darkly bitter aftertaste. So bilious not even Jim can listen to it all the way through! Fine, it's not for him to listen to anymore -- WE can't stop from listening. It's like a beautiful car wreck we can't look away from or stop feeling AMAZING about. Super fun stuff."
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