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- 15 Feb 02
Listen to a track from Bright Flight, the new opus from Silver Jews, a band led by David A?D.C.A? Berman... a man who hails from Albermerle, Virginia, but has a heart that yearns for Nashville, Tennessee - a dreamstate with an unlimited supply of "club soda" and "hot middle-aged women."
Silver Jews have in the past been positioned as a Pavement side-project, since Berman worked with Stephen Malkmus on the bands early albums, but the essence of the music is definitely Berman?‘s inimitable style of songwriting, his deadpan delivery and razor-sharp eye for poetic detail.
Recorded after the tragic deaths of two of Berman?‘s close friends, Bright Flight touches many a raw nerve, while remaining a positive, uplifting work by virtue of Berman?‘s marvellous mordant wit and buoyant musical arrangements.
Let him take you to Tennessee?‘..
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