Foreign Keys

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{{Infobox album

| name = Foreign Keys

| type = studio

| artist = Jandek

| cover = Jandek0749.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1985

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Folk, experimental, outsider

| length = 43:47

| label = Corwood Industries

| producer = Corwood Industries

| prev_title = Nine-Thirty

| prev_year = 1985

| next_title = Telegraph Melts

| next_year = 1986

}}

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.

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}} [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r608990|pure_url=yes}} link]

| rev2 = Forced Exposure

| rev2Score = (very favorable) [http://tisue.net/jandek/discog.html#0749 link]

| noprose = yes

}}

Track listing

{{Track listing

|title1 = Spanish in Me

|length1 = 5:42

|title2 = Lost Cause

|length2 = 4:27

|title3 = Caper

|length3 = 5:44

|title4 = Uncle Steve

|length4 = 2:28

|title5 = Don't Be So Mean

|length5 = 2:07

|title6 = Coming Quiet

|length6 = 1:54

|title7 = Needs No Sun

|length7 = 3:12

|title8 = Oh No

|length8 = 2:20

|title9 = Some of Your Peace

|length9 = 2:41

|title10 = Put it Away

|length10 = 4:27

|title11 = Ballad of Robert

|length11 = 3:45

|title12 = River to Madrid

|length12 = 4:21

|total_length = 43:47

}}