Album Notes

Like some kind of electro-alchemist, it’s as if Andrew Jackson has taken everything he has observed, learned, and absorbed in 30 years of making music, and effortlessly coalesced its essence into these songs. The Last Romantic conjures moods from downbeat to uptempo, playing off Jackson’s requisite themes of life, love, and dreams -- all filtered through his surrealist lens. Many of the songs are inspired by the sound of 80’s electro beats from classic drum machines and tinted with shades of post-punk-goth, punctuated by Jackson’s distinctive vocal style.

Standout tracks include “Your Dreams,” with its languid mid-tempo groove and the more frenzied (painfully yet amusingly honest) “Definition of Insanity.” Check out the space-lounge groove that kicks in halfway through “Locked Up,” the moody art-rock psychedelia of “Come Back Around,” and the electroclash funk of the album’s definitive opening track, “Return to Love.” In addition to his extensive work as a solo artist, Andrew Lawrence Jackson is a founding member of San Francisco avant-pop duo Zru Vogue.