Death is Not the End usually delivers up quality, but I feel like I'm missing a joke here. Henry Caravan is Louis Johnstone (??) is Wanda Group (????) who seems to have recorded this album alone in a room somewhere (I'm picturing a desolate cabin in winter). There's a lot of aimless fingerpicking experimentation that's so angular it sounds like a more purposeless Derek Bailey, and any time it threatens to get interesting Henry steps up to the mic and sings with a voice that indicates he's afflicted with a monstrous head cold, replete with sniffing and snuffing and heavy breathing throughout the tracks. Imagine your co-worker in the cubicle next to you annoying the shit out of you with their cold, and then having them mumblesing into your ear with their mucus and hot breath. Certainly no pleasure to listen to unless, like I said, I'm missing a joke? Either way....no thanks.
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