Ignatz - I Live In A Utopia
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Long-time-coming double LP reissue of some mid-period Ignatz first released on cassette in 2015 by Goaty Tapes, and now featuring some new fittingly phantasmagorical artwork and an additional 17 minutes of material from that period. Picking your favourite Ignatz is like picking your favourite Jandek, an artist with whom Bram Devens shares a number of characteristics. Essentially a futile pursuit, you're either in or you're out, so singular is their particular oeuvre, so vast does it expand. And yet and yet, I Live In A Utopia reveals itself as an especially potent collection within Devens sprawling, near-monolithic catalogue. Might we even describe it as definitive? A weather-worn wisp of a voice transmitted from the void, sitting atop finger-picked American Primitive guitars that shimmer with a ghostly translucence, where songs tend to expand out endlessly into the infinite. This is the Ignatz landscape: desolate prairies, infinite horizons, inner turmoil, ancient dust. Darkness and cold maybe, but there's hope in these lonesome avant-blues spirituals, too - remember you'd not see the light if it were not winning. And i guess utopia emerges wherever you might find it. You'd do well to start with this record.
