Iconoclast -- Iconoclast LP

Original 196? private pressing on no label (catalog # CO 2084).

Entirely unknown and true-to-its-name very iconoclastic outsider Xian folk private LP... I have searched a long time for info on this but so far still have absolutely no idea who this is exactly, where it's from or when it was made. There are no references to this album, or its follow-up Iconoclast Two (also listed this week), anywhere on the web. It's gotta be American, and has the sound and feel of mid-late 1960's, as this LP has a veiled reference to the Vietnam War, and Iconoclast Two has an anti-war song which mentions youth taking LSD and rioting in city streets.

The music on here is hard to describe accurately... and its charm and appeal are hard to convey in words... suffice to say it's solo folk, angry-man-against-the-world, or more accurately earnest yet disilluioned believer railing against organized religion, voiced with a unique worldview of an at-times charming, at-times insufferable sort of nerdy curmudgeon-slash-crank-slash-poet.

Over pretty trad old-timey acoustic strumming, surely taking off from early Bob Dylan, Iconoclast delivers his purely over-the-top lyrics in a weird off-kilter deadpan-falsetto with insanely convoluted rhymes... loner/outsider/savant/heretic/"iconoclastic" self-righteous tongue-tying rants against the church, church orthodoxy, churchgoers, hypocrites, higher education, organized religion, society in general...

Some of the songs are actually poetic and allegorical, with phrasing that becomes quite lyrical and almost haunting. Other songs are clumsy in their convoluted rhymes, and as such can get truly laugh-out-loud funny. Iconoclast can segue from a knee-slappingly idiotic verse into a spine-tingling poetic chorus without taking a breath, and, well, there's something to be said for that. And heaven help you if you get one of his songs stuck in your head...

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Tracks:

Peace And Order Christian War You're A Believer You Held A Meeting You Call That Living Isn't Church A Bore Michael Spoke The Lion Keeper Prophets Of Doom Welcome To Our College

CONDITION: / Vinyl VG+   vinyl is excellent, strong VG+, has light wear and some surface scuffing, no scratches, plays fairly well (not a quality pressing to begin, so there is some intrinsic surface noise) -- record does have a slight warp which doesn't affect play.

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