Search - Jim O'Rourke :: Halfway to a Threeway

Sell your stuff or your sister to buy this album!

sbrooks76 | Newark, De United States | 03/20/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This album is incredible in each and every way. The only detractor is it is so short and leaves you begging for more. Jim O'Rourke, the backbone of the indie scene it seems, creates with four songs what most bands can't do in a career. From Fuzzy Sun to the perverted, twisted, brillian title track this album doesn't quit. Fuzzy Sun seems to start in medias res and pulls you into the album before you know what happened. O'Rourke's genius is manifest in the way which he exploits the seemingly simple things to make them shine, and both the lyrics and the music do this on Fuzzy Sun.
Probably the best track is the second which is a brilliant, sporadic tempoed ode to jazz (Stan Getz always comes to mind with O'Rourke) and rock. The beginning is a medling with guitars and choppy themes until it ascends into the languid and beautiful trumpet rifs. This song will make your day!
Three and four are more subdued. But the title track is perverted and grand! Superficially it has the trappings of a love song, but with O'Rourke nothing is at it seems! Genius!"

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Brian Castle | Geneva, Ohio USA | 03/05/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

""Not Sport, Martial Art" is one of the greatest songs ever made. Buy it for at least that."

Indispensable Music

Blackberries | PA | 12/17/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The most singular album of 1999, Halfway to a Threeway is the quiddity of what good music should be. Offering a marvelous panoply of instruments, there isn't a dull moment on the whole disc. "Not Sport, Martial Art" and "The Workplace" are two of the loveliest songs I've ever heard. The cd is somewhat miasmic in the sense that you probably won't be able to do anything except for listening to the cd over and over, but man, it's so worth it."