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  • Audio CD (4 Feb 2008)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl
  • ASIN: B000X3V9Q8
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
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American Music Club are set to release their 9th long player, The Golden Age, their strongest album in over a decade, on Monday 4th February 2008.
Uncut Magazine has already called it their best since 1993's masterpiece Mercury. The Golden Age follows the band's 2004 release, the much lauded Love Songs For Patriots, which had the Guardian calling lead singer and songwriter Mark Eitzel "America's greatest living lyricist".
Featuring 13 songs, The Golden Age exudes an understated brilliance, and sees AMC moving away from the fragmented studio sound of their last, critically acclaimed opus Love Songs For Patriots, to an altogether lighter more cohesive sound reminiscent of their earlier works, whilst the backing vocals and melodies recall LA in the early 70s where folk / pop / rock of CSNY, Fleetwood Mac, Bread and the Hollies ruled

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Well Made But Not Essential., 18 Jan 2008
By William J. Walker "Billyjay" (England) - See all my reviews
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I find myself in agreement with many of the earlier reviewers, in that the album starts well but then, just as your expectations are soaring, it fails to ignite. Ultimately you find yourself admiring the craftsmanship that has produced the work but it fails to evoke a strong response of any kind.

There is something, however, I would like to take issue with: The number of reviews that use comments like, 'I'm sure fans of the band will love this' and so on. Well I don't consider myself a 'fan of the band' but I do have nearly all their albums and consider "California" to be, not just a 'great lost classic', but one of the best albums recorded in the last 20 years. I object to the idea that this will make me MORE tolerant of lower quality output. If anything the reverse is true.

I read an a comment somewhere recently that has stuck with me 'avoid any album referred to as "a return to form" when applied to a once great artist who has produced little of worth for many years'. There are actually plenty of exceptions to this rule so I'll keep testing its validity but this, sadly, is not one.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Golden Ticket, 6 Jan 2008
By C. CAMPBELL "tagatha" (UK) - See all my reviews
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If you are a monthly reader of UNCUT magazine, then you've probably already heard of American Music Club and I can tell you to forget the review and just buy the album. You won't be disappointed.

If you're not as familiar with AMC let me try to give you an idea of what to expect. They were every bit as influencial on the Americana scene of the last 20 years as the Band, CSNY or Willie Nelson were in the previous 20 years. The difference is that not as many people have heard of American Music Club or its founder Mark Eitzel.

However, if you've ever listened to an album by Wilco, Lambchop, Richmond Fontaine and any number of singer-songwriters (Josh Rouse, Ryan Adams, Shawn Colvin, Lucinda Williams) you can clearly hear the stamp of AMC in both the bottom-of-a-bottle lyrics and the lush atmospheric production. There is even some evidence that artists this side of the Atlantic like Ed Harcourt have taken notice.

Eitzel has a well documented history of alcoholism (directly leading to the band's break up between 94 - 04) which not only colours his voice with broken tones and gentle, ravaged emotion but also bleeds through his lyrics. 2004's 'Love songs for Patriots' contained stellar tracks such as 'Another morning' which was potentially one of the songs of the year and heralded a smoother, more sustainable approach to songwriting than the earlier records had shown. Now with a totally new line up, Eitzel is building on the sound.

Standout tracks are opener 'All My Love', a juxtaposition of good intent and expectation of loss. Truly the saddest kind of love song. This is also a scene setter for the rest of the album and other great tracks like 'The Dance' and 'The Windows of the world'.

This is modernist Americana - you won't find a mandolin or a dobro here - but you will find songs of the lost and lonely, the losers and the triers, the broken and the bruised.

All in all a very good album with few filler tunes, that promises for a very chilled but very solemn live set. Worth a listen if your bent runs to quality song writing and imperfect, soulful voices against a backdrop of big acoustic sound.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Dazzling, 8 Feb 2008
By mike (telford) - See all my reviews
This is a lovely record. The melodies are beautiful, the lyrics are poetic and fascinating and the production is warm and accessible. It's unusual to find a record with this kind of surface beauty and such depth. There are obviously striking standouts("decibels and the little pills", "windows on the world", "all the lost souls","all my love", "who you are"), but delve deeper and you find the strange but gorgeous: "one step ahead", "the dance", "the stars"; and the exquisite: "sleeping beauty" and "the duchess of San Francisco." I don't think anyone is writing better songs than these at the moment, and this is my favourite record of the decade so far.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Sold on Gold
AMC back to what they do best - deceptively simple both lyrically and musically but over time all of those addictive little subtleties reveal themselves leaving you absolutely... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Man Without a Soul

4.0 out of 5 stars excellent
Good songs, excellent lyrics as usual. Fine musicianship too.

Go buy it!
Published 14 months ago by Ben

2.0 out of 5 stars Expecting To Fly
I had high hopes for this album by AMC but found it dull and uninspiring.
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Published 16 months ago by David Sandilands

4.0 out of 5 stars Slow, beautiful and moving
American Music Club has been a band I've long heard of, but seldom heard. The Golden Age changed all that. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Mr. Paul S. Bird

1.0 out of 5 stars Blah.
I had high hopes for this but unfortunately was disappointed. None of the tracks grabbed me and I couldn't wait for it to be over!
Published 18 months ago by L. Newman

4.0 out of 5 stars Took a little time, but I'm with the programme now
I was a huge fan of American Music Club's last album, Love Songs for Patriots. Huge. It is their best album in my opinion, and seemed to cap years of good but not great records... Read more
Published 19 months ago by ghandibob

4.0 out of 5 stars keeps knocking until you let it in..
From initial indifference (hmm..not as good as Love Songs for Patriots) ...I now find myself listening to this more and more....and more. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Boo Kirby

4.0 out of 5 stars OK but ...
I had not heard of AMC when I requested this CD for review and I confess they aren't my cup of tea...I suspect I was expecting something more country.... Read more
Published 20 months ago by R. A. Caton

2.0 out of 5 stars Not the return to form hoped for
First formed in 1982, The American Music Club, have now released 9 albums over a 25 year period, including a hiatus between 1994 and 2004. Read more
Published 21 months ago by D. Evans

2.0 out of 5 stars Not for me, I'm afraid.
They split up to little fanfare, got back together to perhaps even less fanfare and then title their "comeback album" as The Golden Age. Read more
Published 21 months ago by IWFIcon

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