“*A Thousand Songs*' "Introduction" finds Jim Guthrie humbly warbling "I think I'll write/ A thousand songs today" over a handful of thick, grainy strums; six seconds in, Guthrie tumbles off the edge of his kitchen chair, dragging his entire patchy, four-track setup down with him in a dissonant crunch. Introduction complete.
Unsurprisingly, Royal City's Jim Guthrie doesn't exactly fulfill his bomb”