California

by American Music Club

California cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: October 1988
  • Label: Frontier
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 38:50
  • Community rating: 3.93/5 from 5 ratings

Artists on this release: Lisa Davis, Mark Eitzel, Bruce Kaphan

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Fronted by Mark Eitzel's harrowing, emotionally naked songwriting, 'California' is a suffocatingly melancholic dive into slowcore and alt-country. The band utilizes pedal steel and incredibly soft, somber acoustic arrangements to score devastating narratives of loneliness and broken relationships.

Genres

Descriptors: confessional, bleak, literate, slow, crooning

Tracklist

  1. Firefly
  2. Somewhere
  3. Laughingstock
  4. Lonely
  5. Pale Skinny Girl
  6. Blue And Grey Shirt
  7. Bad Liquor
  8. Now You're Defeated
  9. Jenny
  10. Western Sky
  11. Highway 5
  12. Last Harbor

Credits

  • American Music Club - primary artist, arranged by
  • Daniel Pearson - bass [uncredited]
  • Vudi - guitar [uncredited]
  • Bruce Kaphan - pedal steel guitar
  • Bobby Neel Adams - photography by
  • Tom Mallon - producer, recorded by, drums [uncredited]
  • Mark Eitzel - written-by, vocals [uncredited]
  • Lisa Davis - bass

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