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Who is Jandek? No one knows.
His music has been described as haunting, desolate, naive, atonal and aggravating. He'sreleased 32 albums—at least one a year since 1981—has never performed live and doesn't give interviews. His records have no liner notes, credits or clues, featuring only a Houston P.O. Box address for the Corwood Industrieslabel.
Are people listening? Yes. Spin magazine proclaimed Jandek as one of "the ten most interesting musicians of the 1980s." Kurt Cobain famously remarked, "He's not pretentious, but only pretentious people like his music," and a tribute album, Naked In the Afternoon, was released in 2000 boasting renderings by Low, Thurston Moore and Bright Eyes.
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