Describing Anti-Magic as a collection of drum essays embracing the physical and rejecting the imaginary

It’s the loudest the trio has ever been and also the quietest

it recalls Elliott Smith and Modest Mouse

genre-dredging synthesis of Waylonesque honky-stomp with early ’80s new wave production values and eerie

subconscious voicings

JIM O'ROURKE - The Visitor LP Books Describing Anti-Magic as a collectionDespite the break, this album can be seen as a direct follow on from his previous Drag City albums most closely resembling 1997's Bad Timing given its lack of vocals and the continuous passages of steel strung acoustic guitar led arrangements. Jim's cycle of Drag City albums (this being the first not to take its name from successive Nicolas Roeg films following that logic this one should have been called Castaway) is one of the most revered bodies of