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Silver Jews, American Water
Audio CD
Disk ID: 661407
Disk length: 50m 25s (13 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 1998
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Random Rules | 4:00 |
| 2. Smith Ans Jones Forever | 3:20 |
| 3. Night Society | 2:20 |
| 4. Federal Dust | 4:03 |
| 5. People | 4:45 |
| 6. Blue Arrangements | 4:40 |
| 7. We Are Real | 4:24 |
| 8. Send In The Clouds | 2:47 |
| 9. Like The Death | 4:00 |
| 10. Buckingham Rabbit | 4:58 |
| 11. Honk If You're Lonely | 2:49 |
| 12. Wild Kindness | 3:55 |
| 13. New Orleans | 4:17 |
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Review
In the past the Silver Jews were commonly known--and often dismissed--as a Pavement side project. Not anymore. On American Water, D.C. Berman comes into his own as both a poet and a songwriter, effortlessly tossing off lines like the album-opening "In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection" while the band plays on, unimpressed. --Randy Silver"All my favorite singers couldn't sing," Dave Berman of the Silver Jews idiosyncratically speak-croons on "Blue Arrangements." To make the point hit hardest, he doesn't sing so well himself, but it's well-taken: from Lou Reed to Bob Dylan, John Cale to Palace, conventionally "good" singing isn't the most necessary element in effective storyteller-troubadour music. Berman is a prose poet by day and rocker by night, and his lazy-sounding, countrified, skeletal, yet invigorating music celebrates the union of word with sound in a manner simultaneously classic and seldom heard. It's hard not to like a record that begins with the line "In 1984 I was hospitalized for reaching perfection." Thankfully, Berman doesn't trade in the wordplay he and collaborator Steve Malkmus are so expert at. If only Pavement's Brighten the Corners were this relaxed, full of melodic hooks, and cagily profound. --Mike McGonigal
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Tracks: 12 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 48m 23s (-3m 58s)
Tracks: 12 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 48m 23s (-3m 58s)
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