Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart closed with Lowery singing about how "Life Is Grand" in pointed response to "those of you who have appointed yourselves to expect us to say something darker." So when Key Lime Pie came out, its moodier music and imagery, not to mention that soon after the fact the band fell apart on the tour for the album, led more than one person to think those darker times had finally arrived. As it is, the group had already gone through one major shake-up between the two ...   [ read more ]

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New Roman Times is perhaps Camper Van Beethoven's most musically accomplished and conceptually ambitious effort to date. The album is a vivid, with a fanciful rock-opera storyline that's rife with parallels to America's current political landscape. The originators of 'surrealist absurdist folk' are back with NEW ROMAN TIMES, their first studio record in 15 years, a sci-fi quasi rock opera. These guys of CVB didn't want to get together and make the usual bad reunion album, so instead CVB has been reunited ...   [ read more ]

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Their debut album reissued with bonus tracks! Features songs from the long out-of-print "Take the Skinheads Bowling" EP and bonus tracks, including: "Epigram 5," "At Kuda," "Epigram 2," "Cowboys From Hollywood (Original Version)," "Colonel Enrique Adolfo Bermudez," and ?Wasting All Your Time" (a kit bash of two songs: "Take The Skinheads Bowling" and "Devil Song"). "They say 'never say never,' but it's still extremely unlikely something so goofily low-key, inventive, and fun will ever achieve cult status s...   [ read more ]

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