Baptist Generals - Jackleg Devotional to the Heart [Loser Edition Purple Translucent Color Vinyl]

On The Baptist Generals’ sophomore album, the word “heart” repeats eight*** times. The Denton, TX band, known for its haunting, claustrophobic take on drunken folk, needed ten full years to bare its hearts—one of which is in the album title, Jackleg Devotional to the Heart, a name that songwriter Chris Flemmons conjured shortly after he recorded, and then trashed, the album’s first attempt in 2005.

Flemmons goes so far as to call this his “love album,” and it’s an apt description—though love through The Baptist Generals’ eyes is plenty complicated. Jackleg‘s hearts don’t resemble valentines. No smooth curls into a final point. The band’s vibraphones, guitarrons and ambient feedback combine like a mess of ventricles, aortas and veins—not to mention, from the sound of it, all of the blood spilled while Jackleg lurched for years toward an eventual finish line.

1. Machine En Prolepsis
2. Dog That Bit You
3. Clitorpus Christi
4. Turnunders and Overpasses
5. Oblivion
6. 3 Bromides
7. Broken Glass
8. Snow on the FM
9. Floating
10. My O My
11. Morning of My Life
12. Oblivion Overture