Jim O'Rourke - Eureka

Label: Drag City

Reissued 2025, Originally released 1999

2025 repress; originally released in 1999. LP version. "Jim is doing for himself what he's more than generously done for other so-called musical talents. Everybody wants a little pop in their lives and the O'Rourke is no exception. There is no way to listen to Eureka without hearing the eccentricity, the progressive musical textures, the utter lack of anything like pop music, but at the same time it's magnificent in scale, pleasant to listen to, catchy and even reminiscent of other records you might actually have heard on The Casey Casem Show. If Bad Timing was regarded as a crossroads of O'Rourkian interests, Eureka is a six-lane clover-leaf junction of singer-songwriter traditions, production styles of the 70s, confusion and contradiction as well as the riveting sound of the artist putting all his cards on the table."

Track listing:

1. Prelude to 110 or 220/Women of the World
   
2. Ghost Ship in a Storm
   
3. Movie on the Way Down
   
4. Through the Night Softly
   
5. Please Patronize Are Sponsers
   
6. Something Big
   
7. Eureka
   
8. Happy Holidays