Foreign Keys

For referential constraints in databases, see foreign key.

Foreign Keys is the second album released in 1985 by musician Jandek, and his eleventh overall. This is the first Jandek album featuring a full band, and is without acoustic numbers. It is also an album split between tracks sung by Jandek and tracks sung by a female counterpart.

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	link
Forced Exposure	(very favorable) link

Foreign Keys
Studio album by Jandek
Released	1985
Genre	Folk, experimental, outsider
Length	43:47
Label	Corwood Industries
Producer	Corwood Industries
Jandek chronology
Nine-Thirty (1985) Foreign Keys (1985) Telegraph Melts (1986)

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Spanish in Me"	5:42
2.	"Lost Cause"	4:27
3.	"Caper"	5:44
4.	"Uncle Steve"	2:28
5.	"Don't Be So Mean"	2:07
6.	"Coming Quiet"	1:54
7.	"Needs No Sun"	3:12
8.	"Oh No"	2:20
9.	"Some of Your Peace"	2:41
10.	"Put it Away"	4:27
11.	"Ballad of Robert"	3:45
12.	"River to Madrid"	4:21
Total length:		43:47

External links

• Seth Tisue's Foreign Keys review