Jana Horn - Optimism

Optimism is the debut album from Jana Horn of Austin, Texas. Originally self-released in a small vinyl edition, the album is now made more widely available through Philadelphia label No Quarter Records. 
 
Horn says the album "seemed to come about indirectly, almost in passing, a feeling of being in-between things. I was really mobile at that time, living wherever... I had just discovered, late, Raymond Carver Broadcast, Sybil Baier, Annette Peacock, Richard & Linda Thompson, a short story called 'Car Crash While Hitchhiking' by Denis Johnson. I had 'Heart Needs a Home' in mind, 'The Great Valerio;' I was just really moving through the world, hanging in the shadows of the people I wanted to be. Hoping, looking out, this is Optimism. I was looking for anything." 

TRACKLIST: 

1. Friends Again 

2. Time Machine 

3. Optimism 

4. Changing Lives 

5. Man Meandering 

6. Tonight 

7. A Good Thing 

8. Jordan 

9. Driving 

10. When I Go Down Into The Night 

• US import 
• CD housed in gatefold card jacket with 5mm spine  

also on No Quarter: 
Joan Shelley - Ginko   LP 
Joan Shelley - Electric Ursa   LP | CD 
Joan Shelley - Over And Even   LP | CD 
Joan Shelley - Cost Of The Cold / Here And Whole   7" 
Joan Shelley - Joan Shelley   LP | CD 
Joan Shelley - Rivers & Vessels   12" EP 
Joan Shelley - Like The River Loves The Sea   LP | CD 
Joan Shelley - The Spur   LP | CD 
Ned Oldham - Further Gone   7" 
The Other Years - The Other Years    LP | CD 
Nathan Salsburg - Psalms   LP | CD 
Michael Hurley - The Time of the Foxgloves   LP | CD 

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