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SUMMARY:Old 97's with Lizzie No
DESCRIPTION:The thirteenth studio album from Old 97’s\, American Primiti
 ve arose from what vocalist/guitarist Rhett Miller refers to as a “de-ev
 olution” of the legendary Dallas-bred band. “As much as I want us to c
 alm down and grow up\, the songs that felt right for this record were most
 ly big and loud and brutal and dirty\,” says Miller\, whose bandmates in
 clude bassist Murry Hammond\, guitarist Ken Bethea\, and drummer Philip Pe
 eples. Arriving just months before the 30th anniversary of Hitchhike to Rh
 ome—a powerhouse debut that played a vital part in pioneering the alt-co
 untry genre—the result is a gloriously rowdy body of work\, revealing a 
 veteran band more attuned than ever to the raw and reckless energy of trul
 y timeless rock-and-roll.\nWith its title lifted from a bit of fictional a
 rt criticism in Stephen King’s psych-horror novel Duma Key\, American Pr
 imitive merges its unvarnished sound with the punchy yet poignant storytel
 ling signature to Old 97’s\, radiating a rambunctious joy even as Miller
 ’s lyrics contend with complex questions of love and mental illness and 
 the routinely daunting state of the world. Produced by Tucker Martine (My 
 Morning Jacket\, The Decemberists\, Neko Case) and featuring iconic guest 
 musicians like Peter Buck of R.E.M. and Scott McCaughey of The Young Fresh
  Fellows and The Minus 5\, the album took shape in a series of deliberatel
 y whirlwind sessions at Flora Studio in Portland\, Oregon. “This was the
  first record we’ve ever done with zero pre-production\,” Miller point
 s out. “It’s us working completely on instinct\, leaning on 30 years o
 f playing together to come up with something on the fly rather than overth
 inking any of our choices.”\nKicking off with the frenzied riffs and res
 tless grooves of “Falling Down\,” American Primitive opens on a lyric 
 encapsulating the album’s snarling joie de vivre: “You’ve got to dan
 ce like the world is falling down around you\, because it is.” Next\, on
  “Somebody\,” Old 97’s deliver a thumping punkabilly anthem channeli
 ng both desire and doom. “That song came from looking back over my relat
 ionship history and acknowledging that I spent a long time as something of
  a serial monogamist\,” says Miller. “As a young man I was in love wit
 h the idea of being in love\, and I wanted ‘Somebody’ to speak to the 
 hopelessness of exiting a very intense relationship and knowing you’re j
 ust going to rush right into the next one.” From there\, American Primit
 ive bursts into the breakneck urgency of its title track\, a gorgeous enta
 ngling of poetic observation and feverishly expressed longing. “I was si
 tting on the balcony of a hotel in Peachtree\, Georgia\, watching the sun 
 setting over the forest and trying to identify the trees\, and I started w
 riting what began as meditation on nature but eventually turned into a son
 g about missing someone\,” Miller recalls. “I wound up taking inspirat
 ion from that phrase in the Stephen King novel\, which felt like a perfect
  description for our band and how primitive and unstudied we are.”
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