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Camper Van Beethoven
began stealthily reviving their recording career not long after reuniting in 2000 -- while the official line was that their idiosyncratic 2002 re-recording of
Fleetwood Mac
's
Tusk
was an older unreleased project, as was much of the material on the 2000 anthology
Camper Van Beethoven Is Dead: Long Live Camper Van Beethoven
, the truth is both were recorded following the band's return to touring. However, by 2004 they decided it was time to release a legitimately "new" album, and
New Roman Times
was the result. It also proved to be one of the most ambitious projects
CvB
had ever attempted, a 20-track concept album that imagines an alternate future where the United States has been reshaped into an uneasy association of 13 separate nations, as one young man from the Christian Republic of Texas signs up to fight in a civil war that's broken out between the Northern and Southern factions of California. As far as the album's ongoing narrative goes, it's hard to tell the players without a scorecard (and the liner notes
David Lowery
wrote for
Omnivore Recordings
' 2015 reissue are invaluable in terms of making sense of it all), but the album's themes of the nature of conflict, the trade in contraband as a form of underground governance, and how ordinary people find themselves caught up in large events all make themselves felt, even after casual listening. As the narrative would suggest,
is somber by
's standards, though numbers like "Hippie Chix," "I Hate This Part of Texas," and "Militia Song" show their playful side had not abandoned them, and though this edition of
took fewer chances musically than they did on their wildly eclectic early albums (and honestly sound tighter and more professional as a consequence), the faux internationalism of "R 'n' R Uzbekistan," "Sons of the New Golden West," and "Might Makes Right" sounds like the work of the band that made
Telephone Free Landslide Victory
. (And the oddball sonic manipulations of "Los Tigres Traficantes" and "Sons of the New Golden West (Reprise)" play nicely with
's long history of oblique, stoner-friendly humor.)
isn't always of a piece with the band's celebrated body of work from the '80s, but it's not hard to imagine they could have come up with something like this as the follow-up to
Key Lime Pie
, and it's as imaginative as anything this band would ever bring forth. [In addition to new liner notes and song-by-song commentary from
, the 2015 edition of
has been remastered and sounds better detailed than the previous
Pitch-a-Tent
or
Vanguard
editions, though not dramatically so. It also includes four bonus tracks -- dub mixes of "Los Tigres Traficantes" and "Might Makes Right," and two unreleased tunes, "Alien Ghost Song" and "It's Gonna Rain" -- which aren't quite essential but are certainly welcome for anyone picking up the
Omnivore
release of this disc.] ~ Mark Deming
began stealthily reviving their recording career not long after reuniting in 2000 -- while the official line was that their idiosyncratic 2002 re-recording of
Fleetwood Mac
's
Tusk
was an older unreleased project, as was much of the material on the 2000 anthology
Camper Van Beethoven Is Dead: Long Live Camper Van Beethoven
, the truth is both were recorded following the band's return to touring. However, by 2004 they decided it was time to release a legitimately "new" album, and
New Roman Times
was the result. It also proved to be one of the most ambitious projects
CvB
had ever attempted, a 20-track concept album that imagines an alternate future where the United States has been reshaped into an uneasy association of 13 separate nations, as one young man from the Christian Republic of Texas signs up to fight in a civil war that's broken out between the Northern and Southern factions of California. As far as the album's ongoing narrative goes, it's hard to tell the players without a scorecard (and the liner notes
David Lowery
wrote for
Omnivore Recordings
' 2015 reissue are invaluable in terms of making sense of it all), but the album's themes of the nature of conflict, the trade in contraband as a form of underground governance, and how ordinary people find themselves caught up in large events all make themselves felt, even after casual listening. As the narrative would suggest,
is somber by
's standards, though numbers like "Hippie Chix," "I Hate This Part of Texas," and "Militia Song" show their playful side had not abandoned them, and though this edition of
took fewer chances musically than they did on their wildly eclectic early albums (and honestly sound tighter and more professional as a consequence), the faux internationalism of "R 'n' R Uzbekistan," "Sons of the New Golden West," and "Might Makes Right" sounds like the work of the band that made
Telephone Free Landslide Victory
. (And the oddball sonic manipulations of "Los Tigres Traficantes" and "Sons of the New Golden West (Reprise)" play nicely with
's long history of oblique, stoner-friendly humor.)
isn't always of a piece with the band's celebrated body of work from the '80s, but it's not hard to imagine they could have come up with something like this as the follow-up to
Key Lime Pie
, and it's as imaginative as anything this band would ever bring forth. [In addition to new liner notes and song-by-song commentary from
, the 2015 edition of
has been remastered and sounds better detailed than the previous
Pitch-a-Tent
or
Vanguard
editions, though not dramatically so. It also includes four bonus tracks -- dub mixes of "Los Tigres Traficantes" and "Might Makes Right," and two unreleased tunes, "Alien Ghost Song" and "It's Gonna Rain" -- which aren't quite essential but are certainly welcome for anyone picking up the
Omnivore
release of this disc.] ~ Mark Deming
Camper Van Beethoven
began stealthily reviving their recording career not long after reuniting in 2000 -- while the official line was that their idiosyncratic 2002 re-recording of
Fleetwood Mac
's
Tusk
was an older unreleased project, as was much of the material on the 2000 anthology
Camper Van Beethoven Is Dead: Long Live Camper Van Beethoven
, the truth is both were recorded following the band's return to touring. However, by 2004 they decided it was time to release a legitimately "new" album, and
New Roman Times
was the result. It also proved to be one of the most ambitious projects
CvB
had ever attempted, a 20-track concept album that imagines an alternate future where the United States has been reshaped into an uneasy association of 13 separate nations, as one young man from the Christian Republic of Texas signs up to fight in a civil war that's broken out between the Northern and Southern factions of California. As far as the album's ongoing narrative goes, it's hard to tell the players without a scorecard (and the liner notes
David Lowery
wrote for
Omnivore Recordings
' 2015 reissue are invaluable in terms of making sense of it all), but the album's themes of the nature of conflict, the trade in contraband as a form of underground governance, and how ordinary people find themselves caught up in large events all make themselves felt, even after casual listening. As the narrative would suggest,
is somber by
's standards, though numbers like "Hippie Chix," "I Hate This Part of Texas," and "Militia Song" show their playful side had not abandoned them, and though this edition of
took fewer chances musically than they did on their wildly eclectic early albums (and honestly sound tighter and more professional as a consequence), the faux internationalism of "R 'n' R Uzbekistan," "Sons of the New Golden West," and "Might Makes Right" sounds like the work of the band that made
Telephone Free Landslide Victory
. (And the oddball sonic manipulations of "Los Tigres Traficantes" and "Sons of the New Golden West (Reprise)" play nicely with
's long history of oblique, stoner-friendly humor.)
isn't always of a piece with the band's celebrated body of work from the '80s, but it's not hard to imagine they could have come up with something like this as the follow-up to
Key Lime Pie
, and it's as imaginative as anything this band would ever bring forth. [In addition to new liner notes and song-by-song commentary from
, the 2015 edition of
has been remastered and sounds better detailed than the previous
Pitch-a-Tent
or
Vanguard
editions, though not dramatically so. It also includes four bonus tracks -- dub mixes of "Los Tigres Traficantes" and "Might Makes Right," and two unreleased tunes, "Alien Ghost Song" and "It's Gonna Rain" -- which aren't quite essential but are certainly welcome for anyone picking up the
Omnivore
release of this disc.] ~ Mark Deming
began stealthily reviving their recording career not long after reuniting in 2000 -- while the official line was that their idiosyncratic 2002 re-recording of
Fleetwood Mac
's
Tusk
was an older unreleased project, as was much of the material on the 2000 anthology
Camper Van Beethoven Is Dead: Long Live Camper Van Beethoven
, the truth is both were recorded following the band's return to touring. However, by 2004 they decided it was time to release a legitimately "new" album, and
New Roman Times
was the result. It also proved to be one of the most ambitious projects
CvB
had ever attempted, a 20-track concept album that imagines an alternate future where the United States has been reshaped into an uneasy association of 13 separate nations, as one young man from the Christian Republic of Texas signs up to fight in a civil war that's broken out between the Northern and Southern factions of California. As far as the album's ongoing narrative goes, it's hard to tell the players without a scorecard (and the liner notes
David Lowery
wrote for
Omnivore Recordings
' 2015 reissue are invaluable in terms of making sense of it all), but the album's themes of the nature of conflict, the trade in contraband as a form of underground governance, and how ordinary people find themselves caught up in large events all make themselves felt, even after casual listening. As the narrative would suggest,
is somber by
's standards, though numbers like "Hippie Chix," "I Hate This Part of Texas," and "Militia Song" show their playful side had not abandoned them, and though this edition of
took fewer chances musically than they did on their wildly eclectic early albums (and honestly sound tighter and more professional as a consequence), the faux internationalism of "R 'n' R Uzbekistan," "Sons of the New Golden West," and "Might Makes Right" sounds like the work of the band that made
Telephone Free Landslide Victory
. (And the oddball sonic manipulations of "Los Tigres Traficantes" and "Sons of the New Golden West (Reprise)" play nicely with
's long history of oblique, stoner-friendly humor.)
isn't always of a piece with the band's celebrated body of work from the '80s, but it's not hard to imagine they could have come up with something like this as the follow-up to
Key Lime Pie
, and it's as imaginative as anything this band would ever bring forth. [In addition to new liner notes and song-by-song commentary from
, the 2015 edition of
has been remastered and sounds better detailed than the previous
Pitch-a-Tent
or
Vanguard
editions, though not dramatically so. It also includes four bonus tracks -- dub mixes of "Los Tigres Traficantes" and "Might Makes Right," and two unreleased tunes, "Alien Ghost Song" and "It's Gonna Rain" -- which aren't quite essential but are certainly welcome for anyone picking up the
Omnivore
release of this disc.] ~ Mark Deming
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