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Tracklist (CD)
| 1 | | Ladies And Gentlemen | | | | 2 | | Another Morning | | | | 3 | | Patriot's Heart | | | | 4 | | Love Is | | | | 5 | | Job To Do | | | | 6 | | Only Love Can Set You Free | | | | 7 | | Mantovani The Mind Reader | | |
See more tracks| 8 | | Home | | | | 9 | | Myopic Books | | | | 10 | | America Loves The Minstrel Show | | | | 11 | | The Horseshoe Wreath In Bloom | | | | 12 | | Song Of The Rats Leaving The Sinking Ship | | | | 13 | | The Devil Needs You | | |
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Review
Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for all the good that's in you to shine," announces American Music Club singer-songwriter Mark Eitzel at the outset of the band's first album in about a decade, four original members (plus newcomer Marc Capelle on piano and trumpet) still on board. So, has one of alternative rock's longest-lived mopers turned over a new leaf? Not really -- he sings that line, and some others on this record that might appear optimistic on paper, in a despondent if muted death wail rather at odds with the sentiments of the words. Yet… Read More that shades-of-gray (mostly gray) collision of music and lyrics is part of what makes AMC both interesting and energy-sapping. Eitzel fearlessly details the downbeat in articulate songs about depression, male strippers, guilt and doomed affection as the band shadows his moves with appropriately lurching, artful sluggishness, like a ship determined to sink with dignity.
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