Jandek ‎– "Athens Saturday" (Corwood Industries ‎– Corwood 0812) 2013

What destroyed Nick Drakes first two albums?.....fucking string arrangements.I hate String arrangements, almost as much as I hate Brass sections, and backing singers! 
Jandek is yet to use the latter two abominations.
So when i saw Violin and Cello listed in Jandeks backing band for this double CD, I was nervous.
Wait, I thought.An inappropriate spark of positivity flashed across my frontal lobe briefly. This could be like a Nico's 'Marble Index' moment.One of the rare times when trad classical instrumentation actually married well with natural music.
Well....you know what i'm gonna say?....It does so right here.
Any work called "Waiting To Die" has to be good, right?
"How 'bout a round of Golf", our depressed representative whines as the Bass Clarinet kicks in.
"When is this Shit going to end?" is his retort to that woodwind interjection.
There will be a lot of pseudo composeurs (sic) saying the same phrase as their ears spontaeneously implode after the first few non-notes dance forth from their listening devices.
Jandek, narrating more than singing, on improv piano, is at his literal best with the words.It all makes sense for once.Christ on a Stick(!).....I even Identified with them!!!!????.......now i'm worried that I urgently need to see a shrink!!!
Even the classically trained parts of the backing musicians have that rare instinct among such creatures, namely an ability to improvise.They're usually lost without notation written down for them,like children waiting for instructions and an mad professor in a penguin suit waving a baton at them to keep time etc. Forget about metronomic time keeping in the world of Jandek.Its a place where time doesn't exist; except when it does rarely raise its ugly repressive head, it passes at crawling pace, like a slug slithering over a sheet of coarse grained sandpaper.
This hourand forty minutes long tune excretes possibly even more hopelessness and shameless nihilism than even 'The Marble Index' did?
Never thought I'd say this about latter day Jandek, but I wanna play this again!?

Tracklisting:

1.1 Waiting to die (part 1) (52:08)
2.1 Waiting to Die (part 2) (50:08)

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