Love Songs For Patriots
- American Music Club
- Band Name: American Music Club
- Record Label: Merge
- Release Date: Oct 12, 2004
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100Love Songs for Patriots picks up exactly where American Music Club last left us: producing uniformly excellent music filled with heartbreak, loneliness, and - yes - politics.
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100'Mercury' from 1993 is widely regarded as AMC's finest moment, albeit their flawed masterpiece. This new album is right up there with it, and 1990's 'Everclear', too.
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100I can't stress enough how brilliant this record is, how pertinent and valuable its songs are to our lives.
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Far, far better than it has any right to be, an album that sounds like a natural progression of the band’s career and one that, if they’d made it instead of San Francisco, might just have held them together for a bit longer.
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90There is no shortage of understated brilliance on Love Songs for Patriots.
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The songs are heartfelt and witty, with the kind of deep sweep that makes listeners happy to be sad.
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As before, there are hints of redemption and humor even in Eitzel's most downbeat tunes. [22 Oct 2004, p.96]
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83[Eitzel's] best album of closing-time kvetch since 1993's Mercury. [Dec 2004, p.124]
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