We Live in Rented Rooms

East River Pipe's seventh album, We Live in Rented Rooms, continues Cornog's journey into America's darklands. F.M. Cornog is an odd one. He is an anomaly in this well-fed world of information - a diamond so deep in the dirt he's likely to be glimpsed only by a keen-eyed few. Under his pen name, East River Pipe, he has recorded six extraordinary albums. These biting, ruminative micro-masterpieces have won Cornog much critical praise, but never fame and fortune. He has painted his America as a neon-lit wasteland filled with deluded losers, cheats, junkies, ultra-capitalist businessmen, freeway-roaming dreamers, and the tragically fated.