Foreign Keys

Foreign Keys
Studio album by Jandek
Released	1985
Genre	Folk, experimental, outsider
Length	43:47
Label	Corwood Industries
Producer	Corwood Industries
Jandek chronology
Nine-Thirty (1985) Foreign Keys (1985) Telegraph Melts (1986)

Foreign Keys is the second album released in 1985 by musician Jandek, and his eleventh overall. This is the first Jandek album featuring a full band, and is without acoustic numbers. It is also an album split between tracks sung by Jandek and tracks sung by his female counterpart, assumed to be "Nancy". Nancy is possibly the same vocalist from "Nancy Sings" on Chair Beside a Window.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	link
Forced Exposure	(very favorable) link

Track listing

1. "Spanish in Me" – 5:42
2. "Lost Cause" – 4:27
3. "Caper" – 5:44
4. "Uncle Steve" – 2:28
5. "Don't Be So Mean" – 2:07
6. "Coming Quiet" – 1:54
7. "Needs No Sun" – 3:12
8. "Oh No" – 2:20
9. "Some of Your Peace" – 2:41
10. "Put it Away" – 4:27
11. "Ballad of Robert" – 3:45
12. "River to Madrid" – 4:21

External links

• Seth Tisue's Foreign Keys review