The Golden Age

American Music Club are set to release their 9th long player, The Golden Age, their strongest album in over a decade, on Monday 4th February 2008. Uncut Magazine has already called it their best since 1993's masterpiece Mercury. The Golden Age follows the band's 2004 release, the much lauded Love Songs For Patriots, which had the Guardian calling lead singer and songwriter Mark Eitzel "America's greatest living lyricist". Featuring 13 songs, The Golden Age exudes an understated brilliance, and sees AMC moving away from the fragmented studio sound of their last, critically acclaimed opus Love Songs For Patriots, to an altogether lighter more cohesive sound reminiscent of their earlier works, whilst the backing vocals and melodies recall LA in the early 70s where folk / pop / rock of CSNY, Fleetwood Mac, Bread and the Hollies ruled