John E Vistic - Man of Ill Repute (2025)

Tracklist

01. Man of Ill Repute
02. A World That's Gone Too Soon
03. Lullaby
04. No Good Musician's Blues
05. Please Forgive Me
06. Pontiac Driving Man
07. Summer Wine
08. There Ain't No Damn Winning
09. Wrong About Everything
10. Song of Wandering Aengus
11. Johnny Guitar

After venturing over to the dark side in 2024 through the album Ten Simple Songs About Death, John E Vistic is back with his acoustic guitar and piano on his new album Man Of Ill Repute. This time John is on a mission for spiritual or romantic forgiveness as he distills his thoughts in his own meditative and melancholy fashion creating yet another landmark album.

There is little doubt that following John E Vistic through his rock’n’roll adventures is a true rollercoaster ride in every sense of the word and one thing is for sure, there is no room for complacency. In 2024 we got the sole baring, deep, dark dive into the world of Ten Simple Songs About Death through which he was channelling his innermost Johnny Cash at his most morbid. But then it wasn’t long before John was taking another deep cryptic dive into a philosophical world through his album Das Übermensch on which he harnessed his punk rock roots, delivering the kind of raw and visceral brand of rock’n’roll that has long since become his hallmark.

As we now march headlong into 2025, within a world riddled with uncertainty, conflict and political instability, John once again returns to his acoustic guitar to produce another stripped back collection of songs under the banner of Man Of Ill Repute. It is yet another meditative experience in which he is searching, as John himself puts it, “for a spiritual or romantic forgiveness for sins rendered or squandered.” It is most certainly another stark offering on which the vocals and guitar were done in one take, with only the piano and backing vocals being overdubbed.

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