Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor

Jim O'Rourke returns with his first new solo album since 2001. All the classic O'Rourke-isms are here for you musicologist types: percolating banjos, smooth electric leads, organic kicking drum sounds, the flickering of shakers to the left and right, mellow but ominous woodwinds sounds that indicate vintage (before turning left and running out the door), sonic jokes, sonic tear-jerkers, sonic jerkoffs, all wrapped in spacious yet subtle left-to-right placement of everything.