Album · Jason Falkner
Presents Author Unknown by Jason Falkner
Presents Author Unknown is an album by Jason Falkner, released in 1996. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 8 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “I Live”, on 4 lists with a best position of #1603.
Presents Author Unknown, Jason Falkner's debut solo album, came out on Elektra on August 13, 1996, and it's the work of a one-man band with an orchestra in his head. The former member of the Three O'Clock, Jellyfish and the Grays produced it himself and played nearly every note; only the string arrangements and an Alain Johannes guitar overdub on "Miracle Medicine" came from other hands.
What he built is chamber pop with a garage band's heart: sweet, stacked melodies that keep sliding into guitars with some bite to them. "I Live", "Miracle Medicine" and "Follow Me" went out as singles, and the critics fell hard for it, but the record went nowhere commercially, a flop Falkner has blamed on Elektra's failure to get behind it.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Presents Author Unknown on radio countdowns
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.