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There ARE no simple songs — only simple people. And since guns don't kill people, Simple Songs will have to do. 2015, and the silence has been broken with Simple Songs. Jim O’Rourke is ready to talk to you again. First, he wants you to know he’s not dead — yet. But you’re not, either — and really, what have you done lately? Meanwhile Simple Songs is more than just a first of anything since whenever! It’s an amazing record of musical song entertainment — because Jim O’Rourke knows what he wants and how to get it. . .musically, that is.
The rest of the world is still a mystery and a bottomless source of aggravation for the old boy. What do we care? We get a great new album out of it. 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. 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. 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! 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.
Let Simple Songs seep into your brain, as a musical expression and a statement of animal motherhood. It may help you get your bearings in a world gone hopeless. Most of all though, don’t hate this or he’ll go away again for another decade! Jim’s got just what the world needs now — but who needs you?