The Ruins of Adventure

Studio album by

Jandek

Released

December 2006

Genre

Folk music, outsider music

Length

46:38

Label

Corwood Industries

Producer

Jandek

Jandek chronology

Austin Sunday
(2006)

The Ruins of Adventure
(2006)

Manhattan Tuesday
(2007)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
PopMatters	^[1]
Tiny Mix Tapes	^[2]
Brainwashed	Positive^[3]

The Ruins of Adventure is the 49th album by avant-folk/blues singer/songwriter Jandek, the 45th 'studio' album released by Corwood Industries around December 2006 (#0787). The photograph used for the album's front cover appears to be the same one used for Jandek's previous release What Else Does The Time Mean?, only instead cropped to the man's face.

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After a few consecutive live releases, this album finds the artist back in a good sounding studio playing solo fretless bass and vocals. In contrast with the more expansive live work that had been recently released, this album was denser, with long songs describing a man building a park that nobody else could go to ("The Park") to extremely harsh blasts at various individuals, finishing with the declaration that he will "not fall into your stinking hole." It is closer in sound to such studio albums as Shadow of Leaves, though the bass work here is somewhat different, more languid than before. Vocally the album toys with several singing styles, including a howling blues vocal but also a more spoken voice that sets up long runs of image-filled lyrics.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Park"	10:08
2.	"Bluff Brink"	8:10
3.	"Completely Yours"	7:10
4.	"Mysteries of Existence"	6:42
5.	"The Ruins of Adventure"	14:28
Total length:		46:38

References

^ Berquist, John (July 18, 2007). "Jandek: The Ruins Of Adventure". PopMatters. Retrieved February 14, 2016.
^ Haney, Paul (September 14, 2014). "Jandek - The Ruins Of Adventure". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved February 14, 2016.
^ Mckeating, Scott (March 7, 2007). "Jandek, "The Ruins Of Adventure"". Brainwashed. Retrieved February 14, 2016.

v t e Jandek
Studio albums	Ready for the House Six and Six Later On Chair Beside a Window Living in a Moon So Blue Staring at the Cellophane Your Turn to Fall The Rocks Crumble Interstellar Discussion Nine-Thirty Foreign Keys Telegraph Melts Follow Your Footsteps Modern Dances Blue Corpse You Walk Alone On the Way The Living End Somebody in the Snow One Foot in the North Lost Cause Twelfth Apostle Graven Image Glad to Get Away White Box Requiem I Woke Up New Town The Beginning Put My Dream on This Planet This Narrow Road Worthless Recluse I Threw You Away The Humility of Pain The Place The Gone Wait Shadow of Leaves The End of It All The Door Behind A Kingdom He Likes When I Took That Train Raining Down Diamonds Khartoum Khartoum Variations What Else Does the Time Mean? The Ruins of Adventure The Myth of Blue Icicles Skirting the Edge Not Hunting For Meaning What Was Out There Disappeared Canticle of Castaway Where Do You Go From Here Maze of the Phantom The Song of Morgan Ghost Passing London Residency Hamman Hall The Ray Rudyard's The Mountain Step Motion Energy Diverseworks The Wizard's Hour
Live albums	Glasgow Sunday Newcastle Sunday Glasgow Monday Austin Sunday Manhattan Tuesday Brooklyn Wednesday Glasgow Friday Glasgow Sunday 2005 London Tuesday Hasselt Saturday Helsinki Saturday Portland Thursday Bristol Wednesday
Tribute albums	Naked in the Afternoon: A Tribute to Jandek Down in a Mirror: A Second Tribute to Jandek

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