Insignificance

And we thought our man in Manhattan was keepin' it real before. When the Big O pulls no punches, you know you were punched with a punch un-pulled.

As a lifelong Midwesterner just back from my first trip to New York-- my mind all abuzz with comparisons, my ...

All pretensions of modesty -- and allusions to Nicholas Roeg films -- aside, Insignificance, Jim O'Rourke's third solo album for Drag City, reaffirms that he is not only a fine composer, arranger, and producer, but a gifted, creative songwriter as well.

<p>Outsider Jim O'Rourke finds rock, John Mellencamp berates the US, and Chuck E Weiss sings bar-room laments. Plus the rest of this week's pop</p>