American Music Club - The Golden Age
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Artist: American Music ClubEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-02-19
Music Label: Merge Records
Soundtracks:
- All My Love
- The Victory Choir
- The Decibels And the Little Pills
- The Sleeping Beauty
- The Stars
- All the Lost Souls Welcome You To San Francisco
- Who You Are
- The Windows On the World
- One Step Ahead
- The Dance
- I Know That's Not Really You
- On My Way
- The Grand Duchess Of San Francisco
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Free Music Review: Eitzel at home
Hit: 4 Stars
Mark Eitzel is at his best when he is at home with American Music Club. I own and treasure several of Mark's solo albums, but with Sean Hoffman, Steve Didelot and Vudi Mark makes AMC a band that is very special. The songwriting on The Golden Age is particularly outstanding. No credits are given so apparently all the songs were written by Mark [?]. I know I will be listening to this album many times, now and in the future.
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Turns out that 2004's Love Songs for Patriots wasn't just a one-off reunion record for San Francisco's now quarter-century-old American Music Club. With original members Mark Eitzel and Mark "Vudi" Pankler still joined at the hip--at least when it comes to recapturing the lovely studio sound that carved out the band's niche--AMC's second second-life album (recorded with L.A. musicians on bass and drums) is as gorgeous and disorderly as any in its nine-album catalog. Eitzel's panoramic songwriting ranges from a crush ("All My Love") and a hometown vignette ("All the Lost Souls Welcome You to San Francisco"), to a World Trade Center memory ("The Windows on the World") and a call-out to the 18th-century patron of altar boys ("The Victory Choir"). His emotionally unaffected vocals and Vudi's jagged guitar work weave those ideas into a melodic and atmospheric formula that sounds as fresh and influential today as it did in the early 1990s. --Scott HolterThis record by the band American Music Club is an effort to experiment and extend the range of their expression. The Golden Age is no exception: from the Mariachi horns to the breezy Beach Boys harmonies to the unfolding layers of feedback, this album is full of varied, joyous, and generous pop music. AMC is a San Francisco-based band led by singer-songwriter Mark Eitzel. AMC is better known for mastering the disparate strands of American music into a wholly unique synthesis all their own. On June 20, 2007, AMC announced a new lineup connected to the band's base of operations moving to Los Angeles. Eitzel and Vudi remain, while Mooney and Pearson stayed behind in San Francisco. They are replaced by bassist Sean Hoffman and drummer Steve Didelot. 13 tracks. Merge Records.
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