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- Summary: 'Love Songs' is the first new studio album in ten years for a reunited Mark Eitzel & co.
- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 21 out of 24
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Mixed: 3 out of 24
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Negative: 0 out of 24
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'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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There is no shortage of understated brilliance on Love Songs for Patriots.
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Spin[Eitzel's] best album of closing-time kvetch since 1993's Mercury. [Dec 2004, p.124]
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BlenderEitzel sounds like he's finally emerging from the murk. [Nov 2004, p.128]
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Little of the album fails to impress in its striking melodic strength or its lyrical intelligence---which shouldn’t surprise Eitzel’s long-time fans. But the album does have one recurring flaw: overextension of its ideas.
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Love Songs for Patriots sounds just as one would expect an aged AMC to sound: with mature, yet loose arrangements with an edge but without balls back up Eitzel’s gloomy, brooding voice, taking wry bitterness to familiar but novel highs and lows.
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So if you can make it to track six - the lush “Only Love Can Set You Free” - Love Songs For Patriots becomes far more palatable from then on in.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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darkrazorOct 26, 2004
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JohnCFeb 5, 2005
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