Beginning with a gentle but intricate guitar riff and the lyrics, "I wish that we were always high/ I wish that we could swim in the sky," American Music Club comes forth with their first album in over three years. The album's initial song "All My Love" continues with, "If we believe than we won't fall/ we'll lead our lives and rise above it all." Imaginative and thoroughly talented, the 24 year-old band is not only still standing but also playing quite well.
Time has provided AMC with a solid place in the music scene's esteemed quarters. The Golden Age has a strong sense of sorrow imbedded in the lullaby-like melodies that come out of Mark Eitzel's throat. But while quiet and moody, the album is by no means a downer. In fact, it might be the most accessible album the band has yet produced. "All The Lost Souls Welcome You To San Francisco" could be the city's unofficial anthem, with a peppy and lighthearted quirkiness. Then, like it's taken a quick five-hour plane ride, the album continues with "The Windows On The World" from the perspective of a visitor in New York. The song mixes the intense thrill and the profound destruction inherent in life in the city. He sings, "Isn't it beautiful? Doesn't it feel like the end of the world?" Offbeat, cool and lyrically interesting, the band offers up a little twist to your daily music regime. Spanning the space of a country and a chunk of a century, American Music Club once again plugs in, sings out, and shares another piece of their communal mind and musical manner.
-Kaitlin Johnson
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