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1. Queen of the Underworld
2. TKO
3. Wendy
4. Downliner
5. Brooklyn (Acoustic)
6. The Fine Art of Self-Destruction
7. Riding On The Subway
8. High Lonesome
9. Solitaire
10. Almost Grown
11. Xmas
12. Cigarettes & Violets
13. Brooklyn

The Fine Art of Self Destruction is Jesse Malin's debut solo album. Released on December 24, 2002 in the UK and January 28, 2003 in the United States. It was produced by Ryan Adams (his album-production debut).

The Fine Art Of Self Destruction was recorded, at breakneck speed, in the depths of the New York winter - and that peculiar Manhattan mixture of Times Square dazzle and chilly introspection leaks into every note. Listening to the likes of Queen of the Underworld, Wendy, and the beautifully tear-jerking X-Mas, it's almost impossible not to come up with your own storyboard: Battery Park, a grey slush underfoot, Malin fatalistically hurling his pain in the direction of Midtown. If such images suggest the worst kind of gonzoid clich, it's some token of the talents at work not only that songs entitled Brooklyn and Riding the Subway (!) turn out to be both intimate and affecting, but that Malin and Adams have managed to create a record whose fearless classicism is all part of the point. If you rated Gold, you'll probably love it.

The Fine Art of Self-Destruction features 12 original songs written and sung by Malin. Ryan Adams contributes guitar and vocals on almost every track and Melissa Auf der Maur (Hole, Smashing Pumpkins) contributes background vocals

The London Saturday Times said, "(Ryan) has turned producer on a spectacular debut by his New York friend and neighbour, Jesse Malin".

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