Dead Jack and his Dry Bones

Dead Jack in the Box   digital album

(Self-issued)

Previously, I interpreted "toy music" as an epithet; I'm now reassessing that judgement. All by his lonesome, Dead Jack (Bone Machine's Jack Cortese) wields a galaxy of gadgety gizmos - including toy snare, toy maracas, sheet metal, and toy wooden xylophone - in addition to more orthodox sound implements like guitar and banjo. His Bandcamp page advises recording was perpetrated "with a cheap Chinese smartphone without using microphones." The resultant Lo-fi carnival-mirror melange of twisted silhouettes at once turns one's conception of music feet-over-head whilst flinging to one side the curtain dividing normalcy from its freakish opposite. A buffet for trashmen, eggheads, and misshapen grotesqueries all.

Recommended: "Dead Jack is Back from the Grave," "Scary Night," "Dead Jack in the Box," "Dead Blues," "A Bottle Full of Broken Dreams," "Down in My Hell," "Bad Jack," "Dead Jazz," "I'm the Masked Man in Your Porn Movie," "The King of Twist (Ultra Lo-fi version)"

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