David Berman of prplmtns is just as bummed out as ever on Purple Mountains, and he still makes being bummed out sound better than just about anyone else. bcsalmon offers up his take -
For 15 years bookending the turn of the 21st century, Berman was not only the primary creative force behind indie-folk faves Silver Jews, he was considered by many to be the poet laureate of the underground. Across six solid albums—peaking with 1998’s—his songs spilled over with double-take-worthy wisdom and witticisms built from approachable language. Put another way: Berman’s lyrics were always incredibly clever, but they never felt strained.
On his new album—self-titled and released under the name Purple Mountains—Berman doesn’t sound like a different person than the one that walked away a decade ago. He sounds like himself, an endlessly thoughtful and unnervingly honest master arranger of words. He is still an adequate singer, limited by his flat and shaky voice, but he sounds rejuvenated, perhaps buoyed by his new backing band, the Brooklyn psych-folk group Woods.
Elsewhere, he ditches the semantic flair for “I Loved Being My Mother’s Son,” a sweet, plainspoken tribute to his mother who has passed away. “She was so good and kind to me. She was, she was, she was,” Berman sings against the song’s gentle sway. He follows it with “Nights That Won’t Happen,” a dreamy meditation on death in which he describes the separation of the dead and the living as “nights that won’t happen” and “time we won’t spend with each other again.
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