2

“2” is the second studio album by the American indie rock band The Black Heart Procession, originally released in 1999. The band was formed in 1997 by Pall Jenkins (Mr. Tube and the Flying Objects, Palllap, Ugly Casanova and Three Mile Pilot) and Tobias Nathaniel (Three Mile Pilot). Their second album only has one song with the word “heart” in it, but in every other way it is an extension of the themes Jenkins and Nathaniel established with 1. Lyrically it is beyond bleak, yet the duo’s performances inject enough earnestness into the melodrama so that the album gets under the skin in a way pure theater cannot. It is a hallucinated midnight transmission from the harsh end of the American frontier. It is also, even more so than 1, a break-up album beyond compare.