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American Music Club: The Golden Age

Stewart Lee
The Sunday Times
Stewart Lee
The Sunday Times

American Music Club's panoramic 1980s albums now sound curiously dated, but Mark Eitzel always struggled to frame his wonderful words. His postAMC solo career was scattershot, from a stab at stadium rock with REM's Peter Buck to collaboration with a Greek bouzouki band. But his reformed group's second effort sports a smooth California soft-rock sound, scuffed by slashes of noise and Eitzel's compelling black-comic persona. I Know That's Not Really You is a heroic polka, and the drifting, dispassionate Windows on the World nods to 9/11 without any trace of mawkishness. Late in the day, American Music Club deliver an undeniably durable recording.

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