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- Date Released: September 9, 2008
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Indie Rock, Alternative
- Label: Bloodshot Records
Jonathan Lethem has a band. And they're good!
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We Say...
It's impossible to talk about You Are All My People — I'm Not Jim's debut LP — without considering the collective's unlikely lineup, which includes acclaimed novelist Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude), Walter Salas-Humara of the Brooklyn indie-pop band the Silos and Chris Maxwell and Phil Hernandez of the production team Elegant Too (they previously provided original scores for Michel Gondry and Adult Swim). Lit-rock couplings are appropriately notorious: most are either vaguely insufferable (Lester Bangs and the Delinquents) or purposefully ridiculous (The Rock Bottom Remainders, which included, at various points, best-selling scribes Stephen King, Dave Barry, Amy Tan, Matt Groening, Barbara Kingsolver, Robert Fulghum and others).
Given the notion's dubious pedigree, it's astonishing how compelling and coherent You Are All My People is — save a few missteps (three Jim Carroll-aping spoken-word tracks), I'm Not Jim's first full-length is an impressive, atmospheric collection of electro pop bolstered by Lethem's words, Maxwell and Hernandez's sputtering production and Salas-Humara's craggy, defiant guitar and vocals. "Drink Til I'm Sober" is a twitchy, riff-and-beat-addled ode to excessive consumption that's delightfully base (it ends with the repeated promise "I'm gonna drive off a cliff"); "Uncomplicated" is considerably less mischievous, a strummy rumination on the complexities of living that gets funny before it gets precious ("Uncomplicated/ Chicken or beef"). Like a good novel, You Are All My People is hard to step away from.
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Mr. October |
2:56 |
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Towtruck |
2:04 |
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| 03. | |
After Mild Winter |
2:21 |
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Howard |
1:38 |
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Amanda Morning |
3:23 |
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Drink 'Til I'm Sober |
4:24 |
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The Pitchers Gave Up |
2:47 |
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| 08. | |
Walks Into |
3:58 |
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Uncomplicated |
3:06 |
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Elevated Plane |
3:44 |
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Lonely Gains |
3:52 |
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Missing Persons |
2:12 |
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Meter Running in a Crashed Cab |
1:24 |
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Hoping for a Comeback |
3:25 |
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14 Total Tracks, 41:14 Total Length
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