title: Simple Songs (Jim O'Rourke album)
text: # Simple Songs (Jim O'Rourke album)
  
  Simple Songs is the third and final singer-songwriter album by American musician Jim O'Rourke for Drag City. It was released on May 19, 2015, nearly fourteen years after O'Rourke's previous singer-songwriter album Insignificance (2001).
  
  ## Critical reception
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Aggregate scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | AnyDecentMusic? | 8.0/10 |
  | Metacritic | 86/100 |
  | Review scores ||
  | Source | Rating |
  | American Songwriter | |
  | Consequence of Sound | B |
  | Exclaim! | 8/10 |
  | Financial Times | |
  | The Line of Best Fit | 9/10 |
  | Mojo | |
  | Pitchfork | 8.6/10 |
  | Record Collector | |
  | Uncut | 8/10 |
  
  At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 86 based on 14 professional reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim".
  
  ### Accolades
  
  | Publication | Accolade | Year | Rank |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Pitchfork | The 50 Best Albums of 2015 | 2015 | 45 |
  | Stereogum | The 50 Best Albums of 2015 | 2015 | 9 |
  | The Wire | Releases of the Year 1–50 | 2015 | 7 |
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All tracks are written by Jim O'Rourke.
  
  ## Personnel
  
  The following people contributed to Simple Songs:
  
  ### Main personnel
  
  * Jim O'Rourke – vocals, guitar
  * Sudoh Toshiaki – bass
  * Tatsuhisa Yamamoto – drums
  * Akiko Yoshino – french horn (4, 6, 7, 8)
  * Ren Takada – pedal steel guitar (5)
  * Eiko Ishibashi – piano, organ
  * Jun Moriyama – saxophone (3)
  * Nahoko Kamei – saxophone (3, 7)
  * Atsuko Hatano – strings
  * Daysuke Takaoka – tuba (2, 3, 6, 8)
  
  ### Additional personnel
  
  * John Golden – mastering
  * Kuniyoshi Taikou – photography
  