Past Imperfect, Present Tense

Past Imperfect, Present Tense Artist: Erik Sanko
Label: Jet Set Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 604978004123
EAN: 0604978004123
ASIN: B00005NZYY


Release Date: 2001-09-04

Past Imperfect, Present Tense


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Tracks:

  1. While You Were Out
  2. Overboard
  3. That Train
  4. The Perfect Flaw
  5. Blow Wind, Blow
  6. Finger String
  7. Easy To Remember
  8. I'll Wake Up
  9. I Get Along Fine
  10. The Ghost Of A Snake
  11. Du Skal Nok Klare Den

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Amazon.com

Erik Sanko's paid his team-player dues twice: as the bassist for John Lurie's post-punk jazz outfit the Lounge Lizards and then in the "junk pop" band Skeleton Key. With the release of his first solo album, <I>Past Perfect, Present Tense</I>, though, Sanko comes off as truly alone, exposing the broken pieces of his heart with delicate hands. Every song tells of some kind of loss, with Sanko's voice breaking in places under the weight of his words. Most of the relationship blows he recounts are blunt. "While You Were Out" is a grave Dear John letter from someone who's fallen out of love: "'While you were out, a few things have changed / the furniture has been rearranged / I moved my books from all the shelves / and I fell in love with somebody else / because I'm not dead,' she said." While putting a breakup to music is nothing new, it's poetic lines like these that make <I>Past Perfect</I> such an emotional album. The music sounds just as fragile as the lyrics, like plucked guitar strings or simple keyboard melodies are all the strength Sanko can muster in his crumpled state. For fans of the artful way bands like Sparklehorse and Smog deliver depression, Erik Sanko is a weepy heart's dream. <I>--Jennifer Maerz</I>

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars File Under Amazing.......2002-03-01

I don't know if you would call this folk, or alt-country, or rock, so I just call it awesome. This album is timeless. Simple guitar parts and ghostly keyboards. Sanko chooses his words carefully and hits you where it hurts. Every time I listen to it I get chills. I especially like songs like "That Train" and "Finger String" which remind me of the Who.

3 out of 5 stars

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