AMERICAN WATER was first released two decades ago. Observing the time between then and now, the album has been half-speed mastered at Abbey Road to provide depth and nuance for all future vinyl listeners.
"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
- Vinyl Remaster Released: 10/19/18
- Genre: Rock
- This album has been half-speed mastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. (Aka, it sounds amazing)
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- Format: Vinyl
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TRACKS
A1 Random Rules 3:54
A2 Smith & Jones Forever 3:17
A3 Night Society 2:15
A4 Federal Dust 3:58
A5 People 4:41
A6 Blue Arrangements 4:36
B1 We Are Real 4:20
B2 Send In The Clouds 5:22
B3 Like Like The The The Death 3:58
B4 Buckingham Rabbit 4:54
B5 Honk If You're Lonely 2:44
B6 The Wild Kindness 3:54
