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| Label = [[Merge Records]] (US) / [[Cooking Vinyl]] (UK) | | Label = [[Merge Records]] (US) / [[Cooking Vinyl]] (UK) | ||
| Producer = [[Dave Trumfio]] | | Producer = [[Dave Trumfio]] | ||
| Last album = ''[[ | | Last album = ''[[A Toast To You]]''<br/>(2005) | ||
| This album = '''''The Golden Age'''''<br/>(2008) | | This album = '''''The Golden Age'''''<br/>(2008) | ||
| Next album = ''[[Atwater Afternoon]]'' <br/>(2008) | | Next album = ''[[Atwater Afternoon]]'' <br/>(2008) | ||
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==Recording== | ==Recording== | ||
The album was recorded over two months at [[Kingsize | 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> | ||
Noting that this album wasn't really [[American Music Club]] without [[Tim Mooney]], [[Danny Pearson]] or [[Bruce Kaphan]], Eitzel told ''San Francisco Weekly'', "We wanted to call this the MacArthur Park Music Club. I went to the record label, and I said I had a band with [[Vudi]]. And they were like, 'no.' I found out: I can get paid this much if I called it [[American Music Club]], this much if MacArthur Park Music Club, and this much if we call it the [[Mark Eitzel]] band."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Sanders |first=Mark |date=February 13, 2008 |title=American Music Club's San Francisco Fixation |url=https://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/american-music-clubs-san-francisco-fixation/Content?oid=2166309 |magazine=SF Weekly |location=San Francisco, CA |publisher=San Francisco Newspaper Co. |access-date=January 16, 2018}}</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> | |||
==Track listing== | ==Track listing== | ||
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#"[[The John Berchman Victory Choir]]" (2:53) | #"[[The John Berchman Victory Choir]]" (2:53) | ||
#"[[The Decibels And The Little Pills]]" (5:41) | #"[[The Decibels And The Little Pills]]" (5:41) | ||
#"[[The Sleeping Beauty]]" (3:58) | #"[[Sleeping Beauty|The Sleeping Beauty]]" (3:58) | ||
#"[[The Stars]]" (5:17) | #"[[The Stars]]" (5:17) | ||
#"[[All The Lost Souls Welcome You To San Francisco]]" (2:43) | #"[[All The Lost Souls Welcome You To San Francisco]]" (2:43) | ||
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| accessdate = 2008-12-22}} | | accessdate = 2008-12-22}} | ||
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