Silver Jews, Whelan's, May 16 (1 Viewer)

Im fucking loving the new album,Cassies parts are only deadly too.

I soundtracked "Governors On Sominex" a while ago,its up here
if anyone fancies a listen

Governors On Sominex

It had been four days of no weather
as if nature had conceded its genius to the indoors.

They'd closed down the Bureau of Sad Endings
and my wife sat on the couch and read the paper out loud.

The evening edition carried the magic death of a child
backlit by a construction site sunrise on its front page.

I kept my back to her and fingered the items on the mantle.

Souvenirs only reminded you of buying them.

* * *

The moon hung solid over the boarded-up Hobby Shop.

P.K. was in the precinct house, using his one phone call
to dedicate a song to Tammy, for she was the light
by which he traveled into this and that

And out in the city, out in the wide readership,
his younger brother was kicking an ice bucket
in the woods behind the Marriott,

his younger brother who was missing that part of the brain
that allows you to make out with your pillow.

Poor kid.

It was the light in things that made them last.

* * *

Tammy called her caseworker from a closed gas station
to relay ideas unaligned with the world we loved.

The tall grass bent in the wind like tachometer needles
and he told her to hang in there, slowly repeating
the number of the Job Info Line.

She hung up and glared at the Killbuck Sweet Shoppe.
The words that had been running through her head,
"employees must wash hands before returning to work,"
kept repeating and the sky looked dead.

* * *

Hedges formed the long limousine a Tampa sky could die behind.
A sailor stood on the wharf with a clipper ship
reflected on the skin of the bell pepper he held.

He'd had mouthwash at the inn and could still feel
the ice blue carbon pinwheels spinning in his mouth.

There were no new ways to understand the world,
only new days to set our understandings against.

Through the lanes came virgins in tennis shoes,
their hair shining like videotape,

singing us into a kind of sleep we hadn't tried yet.

Each page was a new chance to understand the last.

And somehow the sea was always there to make you feel stupid.

 
Myself and tbm went up to Dundalk to see 'em last night. Now I am not the world's greatest Silver Jews fan (he was actually there last night though) but this was really really fucking good. Crack band (including two lads from Lambchop) and excellent buzz all round. Really looking forward to Friday now ...
 
yeh i was at dundalk gig too, really great gig. didn't realise the guys were from lampchop!
got talking to dave and cassie too, i thought i might be annoying them but they were well up for a chat, it was cool.
 
I loved the bit when Cassie was doing her thing and Berman was just looking at her with this big shit-eating grin on his face and afterwards turned to the audience and said "that's my wife Cassie there on the bass" and just looked so extraordinarily pleased with himself.

Yeah, the two dudes on the right on guitar and keyboards are from Lambchop apparently. Really great bunch of musicians all round ....
 
yeh, they all seemed to really enjoy the gig. the three guitars blended really well, hard to do. the drums sounded great too, only tiny complaint was that the keyboard could have been a bit louder, especially for aloysius.
 
What does peoples be thinking of the new album? I like lots of it, and then not some of it. I'd say it's their least amazing, but still solid. C'mon, let's have ya.
 
i think its great, quality country rock with amazing lyrics. slowly but surely every track on the album is growing on me. open field is really the only one that im not too bothered about/hasn't hit me yet. the productions great too, could be criticized for being too pristine but i think it suits the music really well, there from nashville it should sound great! the reverb on cassies voice on suffering jukebox is really lovely.
 
Can't wait til Friday. Must have a few listens to the new album again. It's good weather music.

Didn't realise they were doing a tour of Ireland. Was there much of a turnout in Dundalk?
 
about 70 i'd say. a few of us made the trip down from Belfast for it, cos the show here was pretty much the best thing i'd ever seen.

might try to make dublin too, but it clashes with our mates playing the boom boom room. bah!
 

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