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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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April 2, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 141: Silver Jews – “Bright Flight” 

I think this might be the only Silver Jews album I hadn’t heard. Funny. Not that I was ever a massive fan of the band – if that was the case I would have heard this album for a start. Just record store days really. You sought out the indie stuff, the cool stuff, the interesting stuff. That, plug peak days reviewing records. I […]