Davey
12-03-2005, 02:14 PM
I knew this guy his name was Mark with a C.
His sister was like the heat coming off the back of an old TV
Been listening a lot, yeah an awful lot, to the latest installment of Dave Berman's poetry meets rock and roll, with Steve Malkmus bending some tasty guitar licks, and his Pavement buddy Bob Nastanovich back to pound on some drums. And then there's Dave's loveable wife Cassie Berman taking a bigger role in the vocals on this one. And a few others in the Tanglewood Band including ...
Paz Lenchantin
Tony Crow
Bobby Bare, Jr.
Pete Cummings
Duane Denison
Mark Nevers
Will Oldham
William Tyler
Azita Youssefi
It does get back to the sound of American Water, although it's a more rocking affair overall this time out. There's a couple songs that I wish they'd taken to the limit instead of just fading out, but I'm always complaining about that. My feeling is that when you've got someone in your band playing with the chops Malkmus has right now, you should use it to the fullest. Not the popular view in indie rock, and maybe it does take away from the star here which is and should be Berman, but ya gotta go with the flow, and right now Malkmus seems to be playing as good as anyone in rock. But that's all just minor qualms, this is one ****in' good album. Oops, sorry for the slip. But it's true. Maybe not as good as his best, but it sure is making me real happy :)
So I just plugged in that song title, "sleeping is the only love" into google to find out some more, and out popped this Stereophile blog thingie, and it's kind of a fun little distraction ... http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/102605iloveyou/
http://www.popmatters.com/music/interviews/images/silver-jews-051101.jpg
His sister was like the heat coming off the back of an old TV
Been listening a lot, yeah an awful lot, to the latest installment of Dave Berman's poetry meets rock and roll, with Steve Malkmus bending some tasty guitar licks, and his Pavement buddy Bob Nastanovich back to pound on some drums. And then there's Dave's loveable wife Cassie Berman taking a bigger role in the vocals on this one. And a few others in the Tanglewood Band including ...
Paz Lenchantin
Tony Crow
Bobby Bare, Jr.
Pete Cummings
Duane Denison
Mark Nevers
Will Oldham
William Tyler
Azita Youssefi
It does get back to the sound of American Water, although it's a more rocking affair overall this time out. There's a couple songs that I wish they'd taken to the limit instead of just fading out, but I'm always complaining about that. My feeling is that when you've got someone in your band playing with the chops Malkmus has right now, you should use it to the fullest. Not the popular view in indie rock, and maybe it does take away from the star here which is and should be Berman, but ya gotta go with the flow, and right now Malkmus seems to be playing as good as anyone in rock. But that's all just minor qualms, this is one ****in' good album. Oops, sorry for the slip. But it's true. Maybe not as good as his best, but it sure is making me real happy :)
So I just plugged in that song title, "sleeping is the only love" into google to find out some more, and out popped this Stereophile blog thingie, and it's kind of a fun little distraction ... http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/102605iloveyou/
http://www.popmatters.com/music/interviews/images/silver-jews-051101.jpg