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| name = White Box Requiem<br />
| type = studio<br />
| artist = [[Jandek]]<br />
| cover = Jandek - White Box Requiem.jpg<br />
| alt =<br />
| released = 1996<br />
| recorded =<br />
| venue =<br />
| studio =<br />
| genre = [[Outsider music|Outsider]], [[Folk music|folk]]<br />
| length = 45:39<br />
| label = Corwood Industries<br />
| producer = Corwood Industries <br />
| prev_title = [[Glad to Get Away]]<br />
| prev_year = 1994<br />
| next_title = [[I Woke Up]]<br />
| next_year = 1997<br />
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{{Album ratings<br />
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]<br />
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name=AllMusic>{{Cite web|last=Jansen|first=Skip|title=[Review] White Box Requiem|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/white-box-requiem-mw0000959895|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=2023-04-27}}</ref><br />
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'''''White Box Requiem''''' is the 25th album by [[Jandek]], and his only for the year 1996. Released as Corwood Industries #0763, it is essentially a "concept album" about death, loss, and a man who opens a mysterious white "Pandora's box", which some have speculated is a coffin.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Salles |first=Andre |date=September 8, 2020 |title=#25. White Box Requiem (1996). |url=http://tm3am.com/2020/09/08/jandek-101-3/ |access-date=2023-04-27 |website=Tuesday morning 3 a.m.}}</ref> There are 14 songs with acoustic guitar, half of them with vocals.<ref name="AllMusic" /><ref name=":1" /> The instrumental pieces are sparse and experiment with echo, with "restless" passages that music critic Andre Salles has described as "consistently inventive atonal plonking that never sits still".<ref name=":1" /> <br />
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After not releasing any music in 1995, Jandek returned with ''White Box Requiem'' the following year.<ref name=":1" /><br />
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==Track listing==<br />
{{Track list<br />
|title1 = The Glade <br />
|length1 = 1:23<br />
|title2 = White Box <br />
|length2 = 3:48<br />
|title3 = Second Thoughts <br />
|length3 = 1:40<br />
|title4 = Concrete Steps <br />
|length4 = 3:43<br />
|title5 = Eternal Waltz <br />
|length5 = 4:29<br />
|title6 = Thinking <br />
|length6 = 1:41<br />
|title7 = Part Yesterday <br />
|length7 = 3:02<br />
|title8 = Walking in the Meadow <br />
|length8 = 7:45<br />
|title9 = Evening Sun <br />
|length9 = 2:44<br />
|title10 = Must Have Been a Miracle <br />
|length10 = 2:00<br />
|title11 = Wondering <br />
|length11 = 2:44<br />
|title12 = What Should I Do <br />
|length12 = 1:46<br />
|title13 = Approaching the City <br />
|length13 = 4:27<br />
|title14 = Didn't Really Die <br />
|length14 = 4:27<br />
|total_length = 45:39<br />
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== Reception ==<br />
Writing for [[AllMusic]], Skip Jansen calls the album a collection of "fractured songs...drenched in the atonal ambience that makes his contribution such a standout. For lo-fi wayward mavericks, it doesn't come more outside than this".<ref name="AllMusic" /><br />
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Seth Tisue, a Jandek discographer, has characterized ''White Box Requiem'' as "almost catatonically mopey and meandering... He sounds hopeless."<ref name=":0" /> In contrast to ''Blue Corpse'' (1987), which Tisue describes as "a record about emotional devastation with some perspective in it", in ''White Box Requiem'', the emotion comes "from totally inside it".<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Wolk |first=Douglas |date=January 6, 2000 |title=Songs of a Lifetime |work=[[Chicago Reader]] |url=https://chicagoreader.com/music/songs-of-a-lifetime/ |access-date=2023-04-27}}</ref><br />
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In a review of ''White Box Requiem'' for ''[[In Music We Trust]]'', Gary Gold writes, "[Jandek's] songs remain as starkly beautiful as a [[David Lynch]] opening shot, and the accompaniment (imagine handing your most ornery nine-year-old nephew a $29 guitar before locking him for three days in a windowless basement) remains as brutally poignant as ever."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gold |first=Gary |date=June 2000 |title=[Review] Jandek – White Box Requiem (Corwood Industries) |url=https://www.inmusicwetrust.com/articles/31r27.html |access-date=2023-04-30 |website=[[In Music We Trust]] |series=Issue 31 |edition=}}</ref> <br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://tisue.net/jandek/discog.html#0763 Seth Tisue's ''White Box Requiem'' review]<br />
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