The Golden Age: Difference between revisions

{{Infobox album

| Cover      = AMC-Golden.jpg

| Released    = February 19, 2008  

| Label      = [[Merge Records]] (US) / [[Cooking Vinyl]] (UK)

| Producer    = [[Dave Trumfio]]

| Last album  = ''[[A Toast To You]]''<br/>(2005)  

| Next album  = ''[[Atwater Afternoon]]'' <br/>(2008)

'''''The Golden Age''''' is the 9th studio album<ref name=Rolling>{{cite web

| accessdate = 2008-12-22}}</ref> from [[American Music Club]]. The album is the band's second after a 10-year hiatus that ended with the release of 2004's ''[[Love Songs For Patriots]]''.<ref name=Pitch>{{cite web| last = Howe  | first = Brian  | authorlink =    | coauthors =    | title = The Golden Age | work =    | publisher = Pitchfork Media  | date = 2008-02-20  | url = http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/48758-the-golden-age  | format =    | doi =    | accessdate = 2008-12-21}}</ref> The album is an effort by the band to experiment more in their music.<ref name=Amazon>{{cite web| last =    | first =    | authorlink =    | coauthors =    | title = Editorial Reviews-Amazon.com  | work =    | publisher = Amazon.com  | date =    | url = http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Age-American-Music-Club/dp/B0011HF68M  | format =    | doi =    | accessdate = 2009-08-27}}</ref> The album was produced by [[Dave Trumfio]], who has also worked for bands such as Wilco and My Morning Jacket.<ref name=musicOMH>{{cite web| last = Pia  | first = Camilla  | authorlink =    | coauthors =    | title = American Music Club - The Golden Age (Cooking Vinyl)  | work =    | publisher = MusicOMH  | date =    | url = http://www.musicomh.com/albums/american-music-club_0208.htm  | doi =    | accessdate = 2008-12-21}}</ref>

 

|rev1 = Allmusic

|rev2 = Pitchfork Media

The album was released to generally positive critical reviews with a score of 80 (out of 100) on Metacritic.<ref name=meta>{{cite web| last =    | first =    | authorlink =    | coauthors =    | title =  American Music Club: The Golden Age (2008): Reviews  | work =    | publisher =  Metacritic  | date =    | url =  http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/americanmusicclub/goldenage | format =    | doi =    | accessdate = 2008-12-21}}</ref>

The album was recorded over two months at [[Kingsize Soundlabs]] in Los Angeles with [[Dave Trumfio]], who also recorded Wilco's ''Summerteeth'' album. [[Mark Eitzel]] began writing the songs that appear on ''The Golden Age'' in 2005, though recording didn't begin until 2007.<ref name=merge>{{cite web| last =    | first =    | authorlink =    | coauthors =    | title = American Music Club  | work =    | publisher =    | date =    | url =  http://www.mergerecords.com/presskits/MRG309/amc.bio.pdf  | format =    | doi =    | accessdate = 2008-12-21}}</ref>

 

 

Eitzel told ''Prefix'', "We did that (previous) [[American Music Club]] record, and it was basically me, [[Tim Mooney|Tim]], and [[Danny Pearson|Danny]] working in San Francisco and flying [[Vudi]] and the keyboard player up on the weekends. We’d fly [[Vudi]] up and he’d do fifty takes and I’d edit them into a part, and I really didn’t want to do that again on this record. [[Vudi]] is a slow burn: He comes up with ideas after a while, and you really want those ideas, because he’s a genius. On the next record, I basically said, 'Well, I don’t want to make a record like we did last time. I want to make a record with [[Vudi]] in L.A.' [[Vudi]] drives a city bus, and he couldn’t move. And those guys (Mooney and Pearson) were like, 'Yeah, sure, great,' and then I couldn’t get them on the phone for about eight months for various reasons. I finally called [[Vudi]] and said, 'Look dude, I’m coming to L.A. I’ve got these songs and I want you to hear them.' The thing with [[Vudi]] is that he just gives me so much hope when I play him my songs, he’s like, 'Oh! Oh, we can do this...' Even my shittiest songs — like a song I had called '[[Eva|You’re So Eva]]' - 'So very Eva Braun….' It was a horrible song, but even that one, he was like, 'Oh, this works!' As long as [[Vudi]] is in the room it kinda works. It had to be [[Vudi]]. He got these two guys (bassist [[Sean Hoffman]] and drummer [[Steve Didelot]]). As soon as I played with them it felt more like a band than [[American Music Club]] had felt in years.”<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.prefixmag.com/features/interview/17838/ | work=Prefix | date=April 1, 2008 | author=Jim Allen | title=Mark Eitzel: Interview | accessdate=June 16, 2017}}</ref>

#"[[All My Love]]" (5:10)

#"[[The John Berchman Victory Choir]]" (2:53)

#"[[The Decibels And The Little Pills]]" (5:41)

#"[[Sleeping Beauty|The Sleeping Beauty]]" (3:58)

#"[[The Stars]]" (5:17)

#"[[All The Lost Souls Welcome You To San Francisco]]" (2:43)

#"[[Who You Are]]" (4:31)

#"[[Windows On The World]]" (6:11)

#"[[One Step Ahead]]" (3:33)

#"[[The Dance]]" (3:17)

#"[[I Know That's Not Really You]]" (3:52)

#"[[On My Way]]" (5:13)

#"[[The Grand Duchess Of San Francisco]]" (2:46)

*[[Danny Levin]] - horns

*[[Jason Borger]] - keyboards

*[[Leyla Akdogan]] - additional vocals on "[[The John Berchman Victory Choir]]"

*[[Dave Trumfio]] - producer, engineer, mixer

*[[Mark Holthusen]] - photography

*[[Mark Chalecki]] - mastering at [[Capitol Mastering]]

*Album design by [[John McCusker]] & [[Maggie Fost]]

*{{cite web| last = Pia| first = Camilla  | authorlink =    | coauthors =    | title = American Music Club - The Golden Age (Cooking Vinyl)  | work =    | publisher = MusicOMH  | date =    | url = http://www.musicomh.com/albums/american-music-club_0208.htm  | doi =    | accessdate = 2008-12-21}}

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