Insignificance

VINYL FORMAT. Jim O'Rourke's return to full-length album-making is a few years overdue, if you ask his thousands of fans — but he was busy, okay? Producing Sonic Youth and touring the world a few times with them doesn't happen overnight, you know. Plus there's the mysterious side-project LP with Jeff Tweedy, recorded after midnight on a thousand and one nights in Chicago. And the arranging and producing of a bunch of exciting new Stereolab tracks. And the mixing of the new Wilco album (out on label X sometime next year). See — he's been busy, damn it! But finally, he got down to doing his own album. And "Insignificance" revels in all the deferred rage that such wall-to-wall scheduling leaves one with. Especially when one is Mr. Jim O'Rourke. He's got a handful of new tunes that you may find yourself ashamed singing along with, so rich with spite are the lyrics! But they're so tuneful, you won't be able to help it! Filled with rock and pop and other things, "Insignificance" finds Jim in full-blown singer-songwriter mode, experimentalism fully intact. It's something else for everyone!