The Door Behind is the 38th release by avant-

Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....

folk

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

/blues singer/songwriter 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...

, released by his own Corwood Industries

Corwood Industries

Corwood Industries is a Houston, Texas-based company whose only output would appear to be the music of Jandek. It is not known what other ventures, if any, that Corwood Industries may be involved with....

 label (#0776). It was his third release of 2004 and came out on the heels of his debut live performance in Scotland on October 17, 2004.

Album Cover Description

The album's cover photo of a hairy, heavily bearded, somewhat younger Corwood Representative (presumably an excerpt from a family portrait) led to both comparisons to the White Box Requiem

White Box Requiem

White Box Requiem is the twenty-fifth album by Jandek, and his only for 1996.Released as Corwood Industries #0763, it is essentially a "concept album" about a man who opens a "Pandora's box" of sorts...

cover as well as some good-natured "castaway"

Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe that was first published in 1719. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is a fictional autobiography of the title character—a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and...

jokes on the Jandek discussion group.

Track listing

1. "Do You Want Me" – 6:09
2. "Gate Strikes One" – 8:52
3. "I'm Not That Good" – 6:18
4. "The Slow Burn" – 6:16
5. "It's Only You" – 6:03
6. "Every Sentence" – 9:36