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Early Days

Silver Jews

Early Days

As the title suggests, this is a compilation of early recordings and demos from Stephen Malkmus and David Berman's slacker rock project

ADM rating[?]

5.7

Label
Drag City
UK Release date
24/06/2012
US Release date
19/06/2012
  1. 7.1 |   Pitchfork

    The early Silver Jews' whole aesthetic was built on enforced incompleteness
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  2. 7.0 |   All Music

    Tape hiss has rarely sounded so enjoyable
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  3. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    Early Times might serve mainly as a reminder to current young bands that there’s value in screwing around for the heck of it
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  4. 6.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Berman and the Jews may have gotten higher-fi and easier on the ears, but never more casually charismatic and deeply urban
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  5. 6.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    A pretty interesting snapshot of what home-recording really means
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  6. 4.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    A collection of figuratively pre-pubescent tape-fuzz that attempts to matter to us in some way, fails at being anything other than a mish-mash of crudely recorded, harsh sounding Silver Jews castaways
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  7. 4.0 |   musicOMH

    This record is essentially a minor curiosity, akin to the publication of the band members’ childhood drawings - occasionally interesting within context but unsatisfactory and fruitless in itself
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