RAINING DOWN DIAMOND

"As Jandek molests his bass, crashing wave after leaden wave of atonality on the listener, the effect becomes so oppressive that one has only two choices: turn it off, or try to fill in the musical and lyrical blanks he leaves. At times a blues cadence flutters past or, if you put your ear close enough to the track, a melody might emerge. "Listen and try to find me," he challenges on "Your Visitor", "I'm all around your loneliness." It's a knife-twisting line that comes at the close of the disc, one that suggests Jandek is aware of the shadows he casts on himself."