Foreign Keys is the second album released in 1985 by musician Jandek

Jandek

Jandek is the musical project of an anonymous outsider musician who operates out of Houston, Texas. Since 1978, Jandek has self-released over 60 albums of unusual, often emotionally dissolute folk and blues songs without ever granting more than the occasional interview or providing any biographical...

, and his eleventh overall. It finds him returning to the band sound with a vengeance, and is the first all-band Jandek album, with no acoustic numbers whatsoever. It's also an album almost split down the middle between tracks sung by the main artist and those by his female counterpart, assumed to be "Nancy" (it is certainly the same vocalist from "Nancy Sings" on Chair Beside a Window

Chair Beside a Window

Chair Beside a Window is the fourth album by avant-folk/blues singer/songwriter Jandek, and Corwood Industries' first release of 1982 ....

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Track listing

1. Spanish in Me – 5:42
2. Lost Cause – 4:27
3. Caper – 5:44
4. Uncle Steve – 2:28
5. Don't Be So Mean – 2:07
6. Coming Quiet – 1:54
7. Needs No Sun – 3:12
8. Oh No – 2:20
9. Some of Your Peace – 2:41
10. Put it Away – 4:27
11. Ballad of Robert – 3:45
12. River to Madrid – 4:21