Computer Age

American Music Club
Moby Dick Madrid Chamber
29 May 2005

Some things never understand the music "alternative" may have trouble reaching the general public for his language is often cryptic and hermetic, but even more twisted groups have a small legion of fans who always supported the group and make them feel alive and important, not the case with American Music Club, a group that despite its exemplary track record and only one in the American rock of the late twentieth century is still unable to find its audience, either within the world "indie" even less among the general public. Frankly do not have to do more that one group of subjects with the size of Western Sky, "" Jenny "or" I've Been A Mess, "to name but a few, to fill a small room, seating as Moby Dick in our dear city of Madrid. Once again, issuing what happened on previous visits Mark Eitzel solo, were not more than 30 or 40 people who seemed interested in such illustrious visitors.
And unrelated to any circumstance beyond his music, and cured of dreadful and indifference, the American Music Club reunited once again showed their arguments for sobran erected for a small minority as one of the key bands to express terms accurate emotional failures and sentimental which blights our lives, his catalog is a bleak day for all the miseries faced by anyone who looks at love in front, always a battle lost in advance.
"Love Songs For Patriots", the latest record of training is a job that grows with each listen, a work that cuts like "Home" or "Ladies And Gentlemen" shines at the same height as his best work, both courts sounded that night, but to the surprise of many, the concert focused on the themes of "Mercury", perhaps its most painful and apocalyptic album, "Grattitude Walks," "I've Been A Mess" or "Mercury" sounded great and demolition at the hands of a band tanned in a thousand battles and in the voice of a great Mark Eitzel on stage, feeling and living every word that left his throat and every note that came from his guitar.
Is more than evident at this stage only with Vudi, Dan Pearson and Tim Mooney, his old fellow American Music Club, Mark Eitzel is able to develop their full potential interpretive and dramatic needs of his colleagues not to sink into the chasms of his own despair, and their complicity needs to move from the sublime to the memorable.
The reunification of American Music Club was, I wanted to see it, one of the major events of 2004, a unique opportunity to reconnect with a band of which are few, very few.