Silver Jews - American Water
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Artist: Silver JewsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-10-20
Music Label: Drag City
Soundtracks:
- Random Rules
- Smith & Jones Forever
- Night Society
- Federal Dust
- People
- Blue Arrangements
- We Are Real
- Send in the Clouds
- Like Like the the the Death
- Buckingham Rabbit
- Honk if You're Lonely
- The Wild Kindness
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Free Music Review: Enthusiastic balderdash of soundz from Old Virginia
Hit: 5 Stars
"American Water" is a great album in the way that it frequently creates that certain syngergy of words and music you only find in the very best rock. Berman and Malkmus crooning uh-huh-HUH in the trailing line on the chorus of "People", the band switching rythmic tactics in the background wah-to-ashuffle, that five note guitar-picked downshift on "Send in the Clouds"- great stuff. Malkmus dominates less than on "Starlite Walker", to the band's benefit, usually teaming with Berman on choruses and the music has finally caught up to Berman's lyrics. On "Walker" and especially "The Natural Bridge" the band seemed to essentially play 12 varations on the same mid-tempo backing bit while Berman panned to great effect. Here he's learned those little tricks of inflection your true Rock God needs, the band doing everything from Pavementesque instra-mentals ("Night Society") to cornpone "country" ("Honk If You're Lonely")to hi-hat Christmastime slouchrock ("Smith & Jones Forever"). Pure Gold, folks. A must for Pavement fans or fans of the unclassifiable stuff that has the masses scratching their heads thinking of categories when you play it publicly- truth be told there is no sort of sortableness to this music- just great songs that're smarter than the average bear and like to remind you of it from time to time, as you sing along, Grinning Wryly.
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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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