A new album from American Music Club — the band whose track inspired the name of this here web site. New lineup — the two essential AMCers, Mark Eitzel and Vudi, are still there, but the rest of the band is new, members of L.A. band The Larks. (Who sound…competent, if uninteresting.)

AMC was once my favorite band in the world, circa mid-’90s, and after a decade of blah solo releases, they reunited for the surprisingly excellent Love Songs for Patriots in 2004.

And there’s an MP3: “All the Lost Souls Welcome You to San Francisco.” It’s…eh. A little poppy and light for my taste, sort of 60 Watt Silver Lining-era stuff. If that’s what the rest of the album is like, it’d be a shame, I think — I loved the return to a rougher, fuller, dark sound on Love Songs — but Mark’s earned the right to make the album he wants, I guess. (Quoth Mark: “I did a tour with Spoon a few years ago, and played a bunch of old American Music Club songs, and they were dark. I just don’t think I’m in that mood anymore. I like that The Golden Age is loose and upbeat.”)

Mark’ll be touring (sans AMC, but with Will Johnson and Vic Chesnutt, among others) this fall — stops in Boston Feb. 14 and Denton Feb. 23. Bonus video of Mark playing “Sleeping Beauty” in fine voice on TV in Ireland:

10 December 2007

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