Artist: The Americans
Album: I'll Be Yours
Bitrate: 236kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Loose Music
Genre: Rock
Size: 74.54 megs
PlayTime: 0h 42min 05sec total
Rip Date: 2017-09-15
Store Date: 2017-07-07
Track List:
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01. Nevada 3:22
02. The Right Stuff 4:23
03. Stowaway 2:57
04. I'll Be Yours 5:47
05. Last Chance 4:45
06. Hooky 2:55
07. Gone At Last 4:03
08. Harbor Lane 4:11
09. Long Way From Home 2:47
10. Bronze Star 4:20
11. Daphne 2:35
Release Notes:
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With a CV as long as your auntie SusanÆs shopping list, The Americans certainly
win the prize for putting in the effort: previously serving as the backing band
for Luncinda Williams, Nick Cave and Courtney Love at the David Lynch
FoundationÆs 60th Anniversary of Allen GinsbergÆs Howl, they have also recently
made friends with Jack White, T Bone Burnett and Robert Redford to land a spot
in the forthcoming PBS documentary series American Epic (airing on the BBC from
16 May 2017).
Musically, the band and their third album (if you include the sprawling
soundtrack they put together for Michael MannÆs movie, Texas Killing Fields) are
difficult to define. Their sound is often harsh and primitive, overwhelmed by
dirty overdriven guitar in homage to Link Wray, but with a tendency toward the
deliberately rough-edged cerebralism of Bruce Springsteen or Tom Waits.
Opening track Nevada, for instance sounds as though it could have been written
for the band by Springsteen himself, whereas the breathtakingly soulful Bronze
Star balances the bands knack for grit with brilliantly spacious production (a
little like that of the first Grant Lee Buffalo album). Elsewhere the band drift
between gravelly, growling blues (more ill-fitting and less convincing) and
slightly peculiar acoustic balladry (the title track, for instance, beautiful in
part, sounds a little like two songs butted together).
IÆll Be Yours is a puzzling, meandering record which at times seems to lose its
way. The constituent parts are in part often startlingly good, but the parts are
more definitely easier to consume than the album as a whole.