Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea reviews
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| Musicomh |
 With David Berman talking recently about quitting music altogether, there couldn't be a more perfect swansong for Silver Jews than Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea.
Their sixth and most accomplished release to date is bursting at the seams with more of their typically cerebral references, sardonic puns and metaphors, but where in the past this much-loved cult alt-country act have kept their offerings decidedly stripped down and lo-fi, this time they embrace a bigger, more expansive sound that is every bit as warm and inviting as the intriguing lyrics on display....full text |
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| Slantmagazine |
| So much time passes between Silver Jews albums—three years since the last record, four since the one before that—that it's easy to succumb to the fervor of the event and declare, "This one's the best one yet!" A forgivable leap, perhaps, since the Joos's first full-length, Starlite Walker, is a lo-fi indie-rock classic from the era when there were an awful lot of lo-fi indie-rock records, and there have been two bona fide masterpieces in addition to that (1998's American Water and 2005's Tanglewood Numbers). Hindsight may prove me wrong, but even when I temper my enthusiasm as much as possible for the needs of an objective record review, Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea still sounds like a tour de force. I'll refrain from deeming it the best one yet, but it's certainly the best album I've heard since Joanna Newsom's Ys....full text |
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| Uncut |
David Berman’s indie friends and peers include Pavement, Smog and Will Oldham. But while all three have seeped overground since their early ‘90s beginnings, his own Silver Jews remain a largely undiscovered commodity.
Berman has a reputation as something of a recluse, sporadic albums appearing inbetween bouts of depression and heavy chemical abuse. By 2005, Silver Jews had released just four LPs: nocturnal country-folk tales of comedy and tragedy, all delivered in a voice so deadpan-dry you feared it would snap. But that year’s Tanglewood Numbers was a watershed. Berman had cleaned up, the tunes had added zip and there was, for the first time, talk of a tour. Three years on, Silver Jews, as the title suggests, continue to look outward....full text |
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