| フォーマット | CDアルバム |
| 発売日 | 1998年10月20日 |
| 国内/輸入 | 輸入 |
| レーベル | Drag City |
| 構成数 | 1 |
| パッケージ仕様 | - |
| 規格品番 | 149 |
| SKU | 036172914920 |
構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:47:53
Silver Jews: Stephen Malkmus, D.C. Berman, Tim Barnes, Michael Fellows, Chris Stroffolino.
Recorded at The Rare Book Room, Brooklyn, New York.
Personnel: Stephen Malkmus (guitar, background vocals).
Recording information: Rare Book Room, Brooklyn, NY.
Unknown Contributor Roles: David Berman; Chris Stroffolino; Mike Fellows; Stephen Malkmus; Tim Barnes .
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.
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)
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