![]() ![]() ( Pavement were, at least theoretically, a Silver Jews side-project.) The musicianship, I feel, gets unfairly overlooked. From 1989 to 2009, he fronted Silver Jews, the band he formed with Stephen Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich. His lyrics were cryptic, but honest, as if bearing his soul with the wittiest rhyming couplets possible. Berman was a singer-songwriter whose gift for gallows humour was a superpower. In August 2019, Berman died by suicide aged 52, a few days before he was scheduled for his first live show since 2009. Those gloomy verses are even gloomier now. On “ All My Happiness Is Gone”: “I keep stressing, pressing on / Way down deep at some substratum / Feels like something really wrong has happened / And I confess, I’m barely hanging on.” ![]() “And housed within the song’s design / Is the ghost the host has left behind.” The indie band’s self-titled record, which came out last month, houses other haunting lines within its design. “Songs build little rooms in time,” David Berman crooned on what would be the first and final Purple Mountains album. ![]()
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