Silver Jews

The Silver Jews' third album, American Water, is no Pavement record, though it could
certainly play one on TV. Pavement's Stephen Malkmus co-wrote two of the songs here,
and his calculatedly slack guitar colors most of this record. But when singer-songwriter
David Berman steps out from Malkmus' shadow and into his own indie-cowpoke groove, he
lights up the place with his deep, almost Johnny Cashian voice and bright narrati... More >

Noise-tune simplified for baritone monotone ("Random Rules," "Night Society").