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FACTS: Second Corwood album. Released three years after the first, setting the precedent for the three hundred album print run. Famous more for its cover photo perhaps than its music.
STYLE: Early Period Acoustic. Jandek drowns himself in a ton of echo on side two.
NOTABLE SONGS: "Point Judith", "Wild Strawberries", "Feathered Drums", "I Knew You Would Leave".
MY RATING: Two Bird Houses.
REVIEW: I had the opportunity to hear the full Six and Six during WHRB's excellent "Jandek Orgy" this January. It was even better that it was 10:45 at night and I was in bed, fixating on one dark corner of my room while listening to Jandek moan through the crappy speaker of my clock radio, which oddly was the only one that could pick up Harvard's station. |
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That setting made the album sound a lot cooler than it actually is. This is one creepy record, the songs on here surpassed only by Somebody in the Snows's "Om" as the best of Jandek's dark side. He seems at his most desperate and lonely on this album, but he still has enough stregth to write some good songs. "Point Judtith" is a longing reminisence for what aounds like an old childhood summer retreat. When Jandek sings "You can hear the boats-sailing", you can almost feel the ghostliness of this dead resort town. Jandek is very introspective here, making all sorts of observations, such as "The rocks crumble/Unto dust they die/Once hard stuff of mountains." on "I Knew You Would Leave". On side two, Jandeks drags us kicking and screaming into his echo-drenched nightmare, and the album becomes very listless and incredibly unlistenable. This is not one that I'd reccomend to a new listener, nor one that I would listen to on my own. He does a good job at creating a depressed, creeped-out mood, but that's not a good mood to be in all the time. Ultimatly, Six and Six fits in well as halloween music to scare the little kids and not much else.
Other notes: The cover photo for Six and Six is a very popular one among Jandek fans; the Documentarians use it a lot in promos, even getting it to blink its eyes for the Jandek on Corwood trailer (which was so cool), and there was discussion for a while of making a t-shirt emblazoned with the pic. |
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