Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers
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Artist: Silver JewsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-10-18
Music Label: Drag City
Soundtracks:
- Punks In the Beerlight
- Sometimes a Pony Gets Depressed
- K-Hole
- Animal Shapes
- I'm Getting Back Into Getting Back Into You
- How Can I Love You If You Won't Lie Down
- The Poor The Fair and the Good
- Sleeping is the Only Love
- The Farmer's Hotel
- There Is a Place
Music reviews of Tanglewood Numbers
Music Review: Let's not kid ourselves. It gets really really bad.
Rating: 1 Stars
First off, let me say that I was no stranger to the Silver Jews before I bought this album. I already owned copies of American Water and Bright Flight when I made the fateful decision to buy this album when it was released in 2005. I would go so far as to say that I enjoyed both of them, particularly American Water. Now, thanks to this, the Silver Jews shark-jumping album, the mere mention of the name David Berman sends me into bouts of histrionics. This album will pummel you into submission, from the campy yet anthemic repetition of the line "I love you to the max!" on the opening track to the unfunnily stupid "Sometimes a pony gets depressed" straight through to the unbelievably hackneyed "God must be carving the clouds into animal shapes." I can't say much about the rest of the album. I don't think I've ever made it any further than midway.
In addition to this album being horrible in its own right, it has ruined my ability to enjoy other Silver Jews albums. Now, when I try to play American Water all I hear is the same heavy-handed, not-clever-enough-to-be-so-self-counscious rubbish that makes Tanglewood Numbers the turkey that it is.
Anyhow, if you were looking at this album as your introduction to the Silver Jews, run away while you still can. If you already have some of their earlier material, save your money, not to mention your respect for the band.
Description of Tanglewood Numbers
After a 4 year silence, David Berman returns under his Silver Jews guise with a new long playing album. And the songs are some of his best ever. How is it that one of Drag City's most popular artists has never toured? He is, and will remain, an enigma though his songs will live forever in your mind.The first Silver Jews album in four years is a triumph with its throwback '80s-synth ear-candy keyboards, slack guitars, and a sublime hi-fi sound that only a former lo-fi band can get. Breaking the silence, the indie-rock star-studded band (Malkmus and Nastanovich rejoin, the 'Bonnie' Prince, as well as refugees from the Jesus Lizard and Papa M) play fearless off-center rock rooted in Nashville, reminiscent of both Vic Chestnut's realism and Giant Sand's recent innovations. Not to mention that David Berman is a poet, so each song is dense with imagery, the whole record effectively telling a ten-part, 40-minute story that is partly funny, always honest, and often dark. Witness Berman exploring overcoming addiction, ("closed sign swinging in the liquor store" "later I come to find/life is sweeter than Jewish wine") the complete despair that lead to his suicide attempt, "There is a place past the blues I never want to see again" on "There Is a Place," and a uniquely American desolation, "I've been working at the airport bar/it's like Christmas in a submarine" on "Getting Back into Getting Back into You." Fortunately, the Jews sound is big enough to contain Berman's lyrical shadows, and this juxtaposition of opposite elements (happy-sounding rock and introspective lyrics) results in a record that is wholly satisfying: not too overwrought and never self-assuredly slick. --Gabi Knight
There's Plenty More Silver Jews Where This Came From
 Actual Air by David Berman |  The Natural Bridge |  Starlite Walker |
 Bright Flight a> |  American Water |  Tennesee (EP) |
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