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New Jim O'Rourke. Any cop? Tracks I've heard sounded like monogroove rocking in a fairly blah but not unenjoyable way.

― Tom, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

get the one on mego instead. if isobel will let you play that avant noise muckety muck. yr pending moustache is probably a strike against you already.

― jess, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Grrr its ISABEL with an A - you and Ricky T need to get your heads out of your Bjork collections. Mind you Magnus has known her for years and always spells it Isabelle but that's OK cause it makes her sound all posh like.

Which one on Mego?

― Tom, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hah! i spelled the way ricky t did in the moustache thread. blame him! (if you feel better you can spell nancy with three a's.)

"i'm happy, and i'm singing, and a 1 2 3 4." solo-powerbook stuff. i haven't heard it mind. but the country-fried-steak of "insignifigance" leads me to believe anything could/would be better.

― jess, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

there's a david toop review of both in the new wire, but he gives "insig." the short shrift in favor of "i'm happy."

― jess, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The 'southern fried rock' thing is a bit of a red herring (er, bouillabaise?) - there's not a great deal of downhome mud-caked riffage once you get past the first 45 seconds. (Mind you, despite having never knowingly heard any Skynyrd, they *were* the first thing that popped into my head when the opening track scuffled in. Spooky.)

It's certainly less smooth than "Eureka", but there's still plenty of odd Fahey pickarama going on, some glistening instrumentation and a really fantastic closing track.

I got this on a cheap promo in Notting Hill six or seven weeks ago; to be honest, I might not be quite so chuffed with it if I'd bought it full-price in week-of-release as I was intending. That recent Wire feature was the first time in a decade I've felt like pinning a magazine cover of a 'pop star' on my wall. Adorable.

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like it a lot. It's like a good Smog record, except arranged and produced and with more interesting stuff going on musically. The new Papa M is better though.

― dan, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

why not ? the sixth track is so moving and it's got a seventies ,well arranged feeling to it that makes it an extremely enjoyable record. the first time I've heard it Iwas like "the best thing is the cover...." but then I've spent loads of time listening to it . what's really bizarre bout jor is the fact that he's calling his albums as nic roeg's movies (roeg is one of the most funnily pretentious directors in all history ,according to me....)

― francesco, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

top ten material for me. who knew o'rourke could rock out so well. i love drag city.

― todd burns, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ha ha - les inrockuptibles reviews 'Insig' and Papa M together under headline "past-rock" - ha ha bonk

― Jeff W, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Coo! The bunnysuit Mr O'Rourke was wearing in the Wire photos is the *very same one* that is featured in the current adposter for Heart FM, currently on show at London Bridge Northern Line northbound platform, at exactly the point where I wait disconsolately for an Edgware Train with a millimetre of available space every morning.

― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

seven years pass...

"therefore i am" is the best song

― iiiijjjj, Monday, 12 October 2009 01:18 (sixteen years ago)

yes it is

― jabba hands, Monday, 12 October 2009 02:38 (sixteen years ago)

jesus christ this came out seven years ago???

― akm, Monday, 12 October 2009 04:01 (sixteen years ago)

EIGHT years ago!

― iiiijjjj, Monday, 12 October 2009 18:09 (sixteen years ago)

six years pass...

i can't wrap my head around the fact that Jim O supposedly wrote all the songs on this in two days, recorded them in three, and then mixed them all in two.

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 00:33 (nine years ago)

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