![]() ![]() The solos are so remarkably Malkmus: melodic, outlandish, capturing life in its purest and most eccentric form. It’s easy to hear the influence, too, particularly any time there’s a guitar solo on a Silver Jews song. Laughably mistaken as a Pavement side project for the better part of a decade, Berman’s dear college buddies Stephen Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich contributed to much of the Jews’ studio albums, as well as fellow Pavement vet Steve West. And maybe that’s what makes Berman’s music recorded under the moniker Silver Jews so idiosyncratic, so full of life and mystery. Perhaps Berman’s spiritual essence derives from John Kennedy Toole’s epic 1980 picaresque novel A Confederacy of Dunces: the drunken genius, the brilliant slob, the wise man tortured by his own philosophical intuitions and an aversion to mankind. The poet/cartoonist/singer-songwriter has long been a mythologized entity, a pseudo-cryptic artistic figure, echoing within tavern walls. ![]()
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