West
by Mark Eitzel
- Type: Album
- Released: 6 May 1997
- Label: Warner Bros.
- Country: United States
- Length: 53:33
- Community rating: 3.61/5 from 3 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Collaborating with R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck, the former American Music Club frontman creates a deeply melancholic alt-country masterpiece. 'West' blends sophisticated jazz-rock and slowcore elements with his distinctively poetic, darkly observed Americana songwriting.
Genres
Descriptors: melodic, male-vocals, piano, confessional, atmospheric
Tracklist
- If You Have to Ask (4:20)
- Free of Harm (3:21)
- Helium (5:22)
- Stunned & Frozen (5:10)
- Then It Really Happens (4:27)
- In Your Life (4:04)
- Lower Eastside Tourist (3:48)
- Three Inches of Wall (4:47)
- Move Myself Ahead (3:34)
- Old Photographs (5:21)
- Fresh Screwdriver (3:59)
- Live or Die (5:14)
Credits
- Barrett Martin - drums, acoustic bass, bass [marimba], vibraphone, tabla, congas, tambourine
- Scott McCaughey - electric bass, organ, piano, slide guitar
- Skerik - vibraphone, organ, baritone saxophone
- Bruce Kaphan - arranged by [string arrangement]
- Steve Berlin - piano, bass [fuzz]
- Mike McCready - guitar