Jesus Christ (The Indie Band): Is This Really What You Want?'

I had no idea where this came from when I played it - and immediately loved it - back in 2010 and it's only recently that I found out it's the project of a writer called Tao Lin. I also tracked down an interview he did with LA Weekly where he talked about playing the track, an almost unbearably intense chronicling of relationship breakdown, to his girlfriend.

'What's fucked up is that I really like this,' she said.

I can't think of a better way of describing its appeal. While the two tracks are very different, the nearest comparison I can think of is Dylan's Visions of Johanna in the way the two tracks managed simultaneously to enthrall and emotionally drain me.

I've now idea how to get hold of a copy of the track now but if you want to get similarly mind-fucked in the most pleasant way possible, you can hear it here on YouTube.