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16 December 2025

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Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard

One Fast Move or I'm Gone

Son Volt and Death Cab for Cutie frontmen team up for a tribute to Jack Kerouac's novel Big Sur

Label: F-Stop/Atlantic
UK Release date: 20/10/2009

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7.0 3231
7.0 | Spin

A dark lark, but worth a listen.
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6.0 6794
6.0 | PopMatters

The project is only decent, not phenomenal in the way one would hope
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4.9 6964
4.9 | Pitchfork

What this album about the so-called King of the Beats lacks is, well, a beat.
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4.0 7026
4.0 | Blurt

Taken from Kerouac's novel, Big Sur, the words lack the rhythm to fully support a melody. Mostly written by Farrar, the resulting songs are respectable, but tend to be stiff and dry
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2. Low Life Kingdom £0.99
3. Williamine £0.99
4. All In One £0.99
5. Breathe Our Iodine £0.99
6. These Roads Don't Move £0.99
7. Big Sur £0.99
8. One Fast Move Or I'm Gone £0.99
9. Final Horrors £0.99
10. Sea Engines £0.99
11. The Void £0.99
12. San Francisco £0.99
13. One Fast Move Or I'm Gone Music From Kerouac's Big Sur - Digital Booklet N/A