AltWeeklies Wire
David Berman Finds Comfort in the Twangnew
If Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea is any indication, David Berman's fortunes are improving. Compared to 2005's knotty, uneven Tanglewood Numbers – which arrived on the heels of an extended period wherein the poet and Silver Jews frontman grappled with medical and substance-abuse problems – it's relatively frisky and oblique.
Orlando Weekly |
Raymond Cummings |
06-26-2008 |
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'Lookout' Brings a New Plot Twist to the Silver Jews Saganew
Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea is an ecstatic experience in the literal sense, an often joyous, crisp rock album that leaves David Berman poised on another precipice, ready to start another chapter or, should he desire, a new book altogether.
C-Ville Weekly |
Brendan Fitzgerald |
06-25-2008 |
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Silver Jews Pair Simple Melodies with Complex Lyricsnew
Even after trading chemical dependency for religion, David Berman remains a deadpan wit of charm and skill, as he demonstrates on Lookout, the first Silver Jews record made without assistance from Berman's longtime cohort, Pavement leader Stephen Malkmus.
