Time Travel Is Lonely is the second album by John Vanderslice, released in 2001. Time Travel Is Lonely is a concept album about Vanderslice's fictional brother Jesse Vanderslice as he slowly succumbs to polar madness while living in Antarctica.

Time Travel Is Lonely
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 12, 2001
Recorded2000
GenreIndie rock
Length34:17
LabelBarsuk
John Vanderslice chronology
Mass Suicide Occult Figurines
(2000)
Time Travel Is Lonely
(2001)
Life and Death of an American Fourtracker
(2002)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Pitchfork(8.0/10)[2]

In the track "Do You Remember," Vanderslice imagines different possible outcomes for the famous Chinese rebel who held back tanks while protesting for Democracy at Tiananmen Square.

The song "Interlude 2" is based on the 1st Prelude in C from Bach's Well Tempered Clavier.

Track listing edit

  1. "You Were My Fiji"
  2. "Keep the Dream Alive"
  3. "Little Boy Lost"
  4. "Interlude 1"
  5. "Everything Changed"
  6. "My Old Flame"
  7. "Interlude 3"
  8. "Time Travel Is Lonely"
  9. "If I Live or If I Die"
  10. "Emma Pearl"
  11. "Interlude 2"
  12. "Do You Remember"
  13. "Gainesville, Fla"

References edit

  1. ^ "Time Travel is Lonely - John Vanderslice | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic.
  2. ^ "John Vanderslice: Time Travel is Lonely". Pitchfork.