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At their best, David Berman's songs have always provided a personal narrative framed by distinctly American pathos, indie-rock's equivalent of early Band folktales. AMERICAN WATER, the third full-length by Berman's Silver Jews, maintains that same songwriting focus, but it clearly betters 1996's NATURAL BRIDGE by bringing back what had previously been the Jews' secret weapon: Stephen Malkmus' guitar. SM's playing has always straddled the line between noise-invested atonality and candy-colored melodicism, invoking experimental freedoms and classic tunesmanship in singularly melancholy lines, dualities that fit Berman's songs to a T.
On loosely written but deceptively wise profiles of Americana, the lyricist's images and the guitarist's notes intertwine to create something greater than the sum of its parts. It is a rural, rootsy sound full of punk's urban knowledge, but with far more credence paid toward a writer's turn of phrase and a sonic painter's improvisations than to any kind of folkie traditionalism. AMERICAN WATER plays as one generation's view of American society, jotted down in one's diary at a truckstop and at a tenement apartment.
Recorded at The Rare Book Room, Brooklyn, New York.
Silver Jews: Stephen Malkmus, D.C. Berman, Tim Barnes, Michael Fellows, Chris Stroffolino.
Rolling Stone (11/12/98, p.119) - "...when singer-songwriter David Berman steps out from Malkmus' shadow and into his own indie-cowpoke groove, he lights up the place with his deep, almost Johnny Cashian voice and bright narrative skills..."
CMJ (11/09/98, p.22) - "...lyrics like....embody Silver Jews leader David Berman's gift for enigmatic, yet uncanny observational word play....the record is Berman's most fully relaized collection of tunes to date..." Silver Jews American Water Songs | 1. | Random Rules |
| 2. | Smith and Jones Forever |
| 3. | Night Society |
| 4. | Federal Dust |
| 5. | People |
| 6. | Blue Arrangements |
| 7. | We Are Real |
| 8. | Send in the Clouds |
| 9. | Like Like the the the Death |
| 10. | Buckingham Rabbit |
| 11. | Honk If You're Lonely |
| 12. | Wild Kindness, The |
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