Love Songs for Patriots

“American Music Club are back after a ten year hiatus, with the original members. Love Songs blends the band's unique mix of rock, folk, country, and jazz with Mark Eitzel's ever-present acerbic, brutally honest lyrics. ' Listening to American Music Club's first album in ten years, Love Songs For Patriots, what's most immediately striking is the way the fusion of beauty and chaos generated by the musicians so ideally mirrors Eitzel's songwriting, and how keenly their contribution has been missed in his solo work. While American Music Club was often regarded as Mark Eitzel and four other guys during their initial lifetime, the jagged panoramas of Vudi's guitar and the patient but ominous report of Dan Pearson's bass and Tim Mooney's drums create such perfect settings for these songs here that you sense this was that rare reunion prompted by aesthetics above all else, and this album truly succeeds on a creative level.' -All Music Guide