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January 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 184

Purple Mountains, Purple Mountains (2019) It feels a little odd to have this on vinyl – but it was a must. At one point this was very nearly my album of the year; certainly one of my most played in 2019. But then what happened happened. And that meant that I stopped playing it – […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 2019, All My Happines Is Gone, David Berman, Drag City, LP, Purple Mountains, R.I.P., R.I.P. David Berman, Record, Silver Jews, Suicide, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 184, Vinyl ·

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August 8, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. David Berman 

Awful news. Just awful. David Berman has died. The songwriter behind the Silver Jews and the brand-spanking new “comeback” Purple Mountains was 52.  Silver Jews became known as a Pavement-side-project. Given it was started with two musicians that would go on to create one of the best-nown slacker-indie bands of the 90s. Silver Jews rolled on. Bob Nastonovich and Stephen Malkmus weren’t the […]
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July 31, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Purple Mountains: Purple Mountains

Purple Mountains Purple Mountains Drag City Purple Mountains is the self-titled debut that marks David Berman’s return to music after a decade away in the middle-aged wilderness of finding himself amid such bourgeoise crises as the death of a romantic partnership and wrestling with the fact that his right-wing, anti-humanist, lobbyist-cunt father is a voice for […]
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