{"product_id":"american-water","title":"American Water","description":"Silver Jews: Stephen Malkmus, D.C. Berman, Tim Barnes, Michael Fellows, Chris Stroffolino.\u003cbr\u003eRecorded at The Rare Book Room, Brooklyn, New York.\u003cbr\u003eAt their best, David Berman's songs have always provided a personal narrative framed by distinctly American pathos, indie-rock's equivalent of early Band folktales. AMERICAN WATER, the third full-length by Berman's Silver Jews, maintains that same songwriting focus, but it clearly betters 1996's NATURAL BRIDGE by bringing back what had previously been the Jews' secret weapon: Stephen Malkmus' guitar. SM's playing has always straddled the line between noise-invested atonality and candy-colored melodicism, invoking experimental freedoms and classic tunesmanship in singularly melancholy lines, dualities that fit Berman's songs to a T.\u003cbr\u003eOn loosely written but deceptively wise profiles of Americana, the lyricist's images and the guitarist's notes intertwine to create something greater than the sum of its parts. It is a rural, rootsy sound full of punk's urban knowledge, but with far more credence paid toward a writer's turn of phrase and a sonic painter's improvisations than to any kind of folkie traditionalism.  AMERICAN WATER plays as one generation's view of American society, jotted down in one's diary at a truckstop and at a tenement apartment.","brand":"MovieMars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45581811253535,"sku":"036172914913","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/7833\/0399\/files\/5204cec856161807866ea2ae9ae1fd5f_ff96f50d-e34a-49b7-9723-2a5107ee78bb.jpg?v=1782128843","url":"https:\/\/www.moviemars.com\/products\/american-water","provider":"MovieMars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}