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| 1. Slow Education |
| 2. Room Games And Diamond Rain |
| 3. Time Will Break The World |
| 4. I Remember Me |
| 5. Horseleg Swastikas |
| 6. Transylvania Blues |
| 7. Let's Not And Say We Did |
| 8. Tennessee |
| 9. Friday Night Fever |
| 10. Death Of An Heir Of Sorrows |
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Frequently--and rather unfairly--dismissed as a Pavement side-project due to the occasional involvement of that band's ex-vocalist Stephen Malkmus, the Silver Jews have long struggled to find their own voice in the American alternative-rock firmament. With their fourth album, Bright Flight, however, they may just have found it. This time, Malkmus is nowhere to be seen--off making arch pop mischief with his own band the Jicks--and David Berman, the soft, laconic voice behind the Jews has found the guts to really shine alone. Backed by a country band, built partly of Nashville old hands, this is surely the band's most conventional--and consistently listenable--album to date: 10 bright-eyed pedal-steel rambles through a slightly ragged, twisted modern Americana. Berman is on fine form, tossing wry rhyming couplets such as "I wish I had a thousand bucks / I wish I was the Royal Trux" into the ether with all the lazy, half-cut charm of Malkmus. His skill goes beyond simple wordplay though--the gorgeous "I Remember Me" is a tragic-comic narrative, where a man proposing to his beloved is flattened by a runaway truck. Many American bands are making records such as Bright Flight nowadays. Few, however, are doing it this well. --Louis Pattison
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'Bright Flight' is the fourth studio album from the Silver Jews. For the sessions, David Berman brought together musicians from the Nashville area, and those from his previous album, 'American Water'. A lo-fi country backing is added to his askew narratives.
Frequently--and rather unfairly--dismissed as a Pavement side-project due to the occasional involvement of that band's ex-vocalist Stephen Malkmus, the Silver Jews have long struggled to find their own voice in the American alternative-rock firmament. With their fourth album, Bright Flight, however, they may just have found it. This time, Malkmus is nowhere to be seen--off making arch pop mischief with his own band the Jicks--and David Berman, the soft, laconic voice behind the Jews has found the guts to really shine alone. Backed by a country band, built partly of Nashville old hands, this is surely the band's most conventional--and consistently listenable--album to date: 10 bright-eyed pedal-steel rambles through a slightly ragged, twisted modern Americana. Berman is on fine form, tossing wry rhyming couplets such as "I wish I had a thousand bucks / I wish I was the Royal Trux" into the ether with all the lazy, half-cut charm of Malkmus. His skill goes beyond simple wordplay though--the gorgeous "I Remember Me" is a tragic-comic narrative, where a man proposing to his beloved is flattened by a runaway truck. Many American bands are making records such as Bright Flight nowadays. Few, however, are doing it this well. --Louis Pattison
CD Description
'Bright Flight' is the fourth studio album from the Silver Jews. For the sessions, David Berman brought together musicians from the Nashville area, and those from his previous album, 'American Water'. A lo-fi country backing is added to his askew narratives.
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