JEREMY MESSERSMITH - The Silver City

The Silver City is Jeremy Messersmith`s second album and here he brings in Dan Wilson of Semisonic to help with the production chores. Part homage to the twinkling pop vistas of The Beach Boys and the sixties, part incisive take on the hopes that push us to the everyday commute, The Silver City pushes Messersmith`s precise lyrics conceptually and expands the scope of his sound. Although The Silver City takes its title from the Minneapolis skyline, it inhabits a universal geography, one that this man from the country refuses to take at face value. "literate, languid but warm acoustic ditties with traces of Elliott Smith." Star Tribune "Simon and Garfunkel, with a 21st century twist." Performing Songwriter "Messersmith excels at one thing that can`t be taught: Songwriting." Time Out Chicago.

"The Silver City(Minneapolis) has maintained a reservoir of talent ever since The Replacements, and this often stunning pop gem offers further proof of its endurance as a muse and a creative center. This love song to the city recasts it as a kind of mystical wonderland, certain actual landmarks like mythic spots that inspire and bring safety and joy. The Beatleqsue dense, smartly positive pop ennobles songs and places like"Franklin Avenue." Even seemingly tough topics for celebration like "Welcome To Suburbia" and "Dead End Job" are filled with wonder and evoke magical landscapes. With whimsical, lush production that is also understated, "The Silver City" sounds like a dream, but a dream of a land it is possible to visit. We`ve all been there already. There are places and people in everyone`s life that become myths, sometimes idealized, sometimes not, but part of our inner life. Jeremy Messersmith`s myths are in Minneapolis, and he sees them clearly, believing in them most of the time." IndiePassion.

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