Cancer and Delirium

“I first heard J. Tillman’s music a couple of years ago when he released ‘Long May You Run, J. Tillman’ on Keep Recordings – a collection of lo-fi, well lived-in recordings that were simply staggering to me. I’d only been doing the record label thing for a little over a year at the time, but I distinctly remember coming out of a long thousand-yard-stare with a feeling of breathless exhaustion at the emotional heft of the music. I also remember immediately afterwards thinking “That’s exactly the music I want to release. This is perfect.” And what a collection it is – on Cancer and Delirium Tillman strikes the perfect balance between the intimacy of his earlier releases that I fell in love with with the masterful, nuanced melodic sense of his excellent 2006 Fargo release, Minor Works. Cancer and Delirium is meant for dark winter months curled up in a heat-less warehouse apartment and this album is perfect company. The short days still give plenty of time to crawl deep inside every hea