‘Nights That Won’t Happen’: David Berman’s most heartbreaking masterpiece
Excruciatingly grief-stricken.
Silver Jews
From Tom Waits to Ma Rainey: The five best songs ever written about hangovers
Ballads for a broken mind.
Lyrically Speaking: unravelling ‘Random Rules’ by Silver Jews
In 1984, I was hospitalised for approaching perfection.
From Silver Jews to Mitch Hedberg: How the 1990s embraced ‘shoddiness’
The art of being a little bit bad.
Silver Jews – ‘American Water’
“This makes for an album not far from a musical equivalent of a Coen brothers film.”
