American Hearts by A.A. Bondy
he Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ride through the first two tracks on A.A. Bondy's solo debut, American Hearts. The third track, "Black Rain Black Rain", recounts a personal plague, and on the fourth, "Rapture (Sweet Rapture)", he sings about, well, you know: "I don't want to talk about Jesus, I just want to see his face." Beset with demons but daring the Almighty to appear, Bondy has clearly forsaken the rock crunch of his former band Verbena-- which, despite their one-time hype, turned out to be a house built upon the sand-- and has reinvented himself as a southern preacher type, steeping blues-folk sermons in Biblical imagery and seeing fire and brimstone on the horizon, LOVE and HATE tattooed on his knuckles.
-Stephen M. Deusner pitchfork.com 7.3/10
Tracklist
| 1. | How Will You Meet Your End | 4:02 |
| 2. | There's a Reason | 4:12 |
| 3. | Black Rain, Black Rain | 3:14 |
| 4. | Rapture (Sweet Rapture) | 3:20 |
| 5. | American Hearts | 4:16 |
| 6. | No Man Shall | 3:35 |
| 7. | World Without End | 2:32 |
| 8. | Lovers' Waltz | 3:27 |
| 9. | Vice Rag | 2:03 |
| 10. | Killed Myself When I Was Young | 3:51 |
| 11. | Witness Blues | 3:13 |
| 12. | Of the Sea | 3:21 |
Credits
Recorded in The Red Barn. Palenville, NY.
