Jesse Krakow overloads each second, writing out one line at a time, blocking the prior lines with a blank sheet of paper. This technique is good reading practice: it prevents the reader from doing a quick scan of the preceding phrases and, therefore, the reader stays focused. However, when the technique is employed by Krakow, the focus shifts shiftily and the sounds meander radically.
Despite the abrupt terminations, the hard and unpredictable splices, of brief and giddy musical moments, A Loaf of Fun does not break the listener from the fun, due to the tint of humor Krakow applies to those overloaded seconds, seconds filled with shifts in accent, genre, quality, and arrangement, where the artist, presumably by his lonesome, is nearly grinning from his own jokes, like the Alf equivalent of bedroom pop.
The shifting seconds of A Loaf of Fun construct a half hour of an unresolved punchline. Sometimes, I find myself shaking my head at its tackiness; sometimes, I am hypnotized, intrigued by its deranged twists and mesmerized by its fragments, fragments that, when assembled from A to B, create a “linear blur,” a horizontal unison of tangents.
• Jesse Krakow: https://soundcloud.com/jesse-krakow
• Factotum Tapes: http://factotumtapes.blogspot.com
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