Jackie Farrow - One Foot In The Graveyard (2012) Review

Jackie Farrow is what I would call
underground artist. He is not just a musician, but also a writer and
photographer. Apart from photography, he has been a writer for Foxy Digitalis
and a music editor for Chasseur Magazine, also contributing words and
interviewing artists for various blogs and magazines. On his own personal blog
called ‘Mystic Groove’, focusing mostly on experimental contemporary art, he
has been featuring short films, photography, graphic design, music and
interviews. In the past years he released several releases, but “One Foot In
The Graveyard” is his latest and most certainly the best. The album has a very
dark underground atmosphere. It’s like a soundtrack for death-ride. It’s really hard to tell what music genre is
his music. Let’s say very dark electronic sound. The vocals are very mellow,
which adds a lot to the whole atmosphere. The whole album is very hypnotic. The
sound itself through whole album is like very modern, but still with “tribal”
feel on it. When listening to it I always get an impression of word
“underground”. The album was released back in September in a very limited
edition of 50 copies on cassettes by Already Dead Tapes. I’m very interested
what will be his next release. This one is currently a sell out. I hope the
next one will be pressed in more quantities. If I would have just one sentence
to describe “One Foot In The Graveyard” I would say:” It’s like walking in some
“uber” underground club downstairs and seeing all the freak people around you
smoking”.

http://jackiefarrow.bandcamp.com/

Review made by Klemen Breznikar / 2012