Music: JAGGEDLAND ~ Marshall Crenshaw
This is Marshall Crenshaw’s most introspective, mid-tempo, melancholy, and at times damned depressing album in his entire oeuvre to date (hence the title, probably). It’s still quite good, but lacks any of the usual jangly power pop that is his trademark. Listening to songs like “Never Coming Down”, “Sunday Blues”, and “Live and Learn” (an apology song if there ever was one), I have to wonder if Crenshaw recently endured a loss, had his heart broken, or is just getting older. (After all, even Paul Westerberg gave up singing about getting drunk eventually.) Hopefully, Marshall Crenshaw hasn’t lost his jingle-jangle (to borrow an Archies song) permanently.
