[4.5/5]
This album doesn't have the reunion hype that helped make American Music Club's Love Songs For Patriots such an event. What it does have is songwriting, setting the stage with "All My Love," a downtrodden pledge of devotion that wears its mood like Leonard Cohen in the rain. "The Stars" cuts deeper, weighing in on marriage with, "What makes the night not so deep is someone watching over us while we sleep." As heartfelt as Mark Eitzel's take on conventional love songs is, though, he's still better on the more imaginative fare, from "The Victory Choir" to the devastating "The Decibels And The Little Pills," in which a woman takes off her top in a bar and everyone's so proud to look away "like they've never been lonely." As Eitzel asks, "How sad is that?" (MERGE) Ed Masley
 Official Website: http://www.mergerecords.com
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