Title: The Fun Of Watching Fireworks Release Date/Label: 20.08.1996/Emperor Jones Description: The American Analog Set's debut album is a hushed, evocative soundscape, an entrancing excursion into the realm of lo-fi dream-pop. Frontman Andrew Kenny's songs - typified by the aptly-titled opening cut "Diana Slowburner II" - are hypnotic and deceptively simple, constructed of little more than ringing guitars and gently insistent rhythms, with the steady, warm hum of a Farfisa coloring the music with a cosmic serenity; vocals creep in and out of the mix, rarely rising above a whisper... It is an experience in complete sonic immersion. Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide Tracklisting/Lyrics: 1 Diana Slowburner II 2 On the Run's Where I'm From 3 On My Way [Guitar Tabs] 4 Dim Stars (The Boy in My Arms) 5 Gone to Earth [Guitar Tabs] 6 Trespassers in the Stero Field [Guitar Tabs] 7 Too Tired to Shine II 8 It's Alright
	Title: From Our Living Room To Yours Release Date/Label: 01.07.1997/Emperor Jones Description: On some Indian summer days, there's a twilight just before dusk when everything just seems perfect and soothing. It's a moment we've all had that's forever fleeting, a temporary transcendence that comes in soft shades of red and orange. If ever there was a way to bottle that feeling for repeat visits, it's the music of American Analog Set. Lush, quiet melodies that spread out slowly and almost endlessly, with vocals dreamily set adrift almost playing harmony to the music's pull. Sparse but steady guitar work plays above a Farfisa organ. Jason Fuller, Metrotimes Tracklisting/Lyrics: 1. Magnificent Seventies [Guitar Tabs] 2. Using the Hope Diamond as a Doorstop [Guitar Tabs] 3. Blue Chaise 4. Where Have All the Good Boys Gone 5. White House 6. Two Way Diamond I 7. Two Way Diamond II 8. Don't Wake Me
	Title: The Golden Band Release Date/Label: 06.07.1999/Emperor Jones Description: I was lifting into the storm now, with bolts of lightning silently crashing around me. Somehow, I felt safe, even safer than I felt on the ground. The music, it seemed, was protecting me. I soared even higher, into the clouds, with the pink and yellow and orange flashes more muted, but more frequent. I could feel the movement of the car through the clouds - I could almost feel the clouds, illuminated softly and growing brighter, flying through a soft, cool white light, floating, hovering in a milky ether... Nick Mirov, Pitchfork Media Tracklisting/Lyrics: 1. Weather Report 2. Good Friend Is Always Around 3. It's All About Us [Guitar Tabs] 4. A Schoolboy's Charm [Guitar Tabs] 5. The Wait 6. New Drifters I 7. New Drifters II 8. New Drifters III 9. New Drifters IV 10. Golden Band 11. I Must Soon Quit the Scene 12. Will the Real Danny Radnor Please Stand?
	Title: Late One Sunday Release Date/Label: 01.07.1999/Emperor Jones Description: Mega drone EP Jim Steed, Fakejazz Tracklisting/Lyrics: 1. Late One Sunday 2. The Following Morning
	Title: Through the 90s: Singles and Unreleased Release Date/Label: 22.05.2001/Emperor Jones Description: Through the 90s compiles some of American Analog Set's best material. It is both a must have for fans of the band (with extensive liner notes detailing much of the history of the songs and therefore the band) and an adequate place for newcomers to start (with shorter versions of several of the band's best songs). Jim Steed, Fakejazz Tracklisting/Lyrics: 1. Only Living Boy Around 2. Waking Up Is Hard to Do 3. On My Way 4. High Fidelity Vs. Guy Fidelity 5. Thin Fingers 6. Living Room Incidental #2/The Corduroy Kid 7. Don't Wake Me [Meow Mix] 8. Dr. Pepper 9. Where Did You Come From (Reprise) 10. Magnificent Seventies 11. It's All About Us 12. Diana Slowburner II 13. Mellow Fellow/Gone to Earth (Live) 14. Two Way Diamond I/II/Don't Wake Me (Live)
	Title: Know By Heart Release Date/Label: 04.09.2001/Tiger Style Description: Know by Heart offers a great many more standout moments than any other American Analog Set album, but winds up feeling a bit less consistent as a result. That's a small price to pay, though, when you get songs like "Million Young," with its brisk rhythm and buzzy organ, or "Aaron & Maria," which aims to add another "youngsters go off to the Big City" chapter to the Great American Songbook. Warm, clean guitars surreptitiously sink monster hooks into your cerebellum as laid-back drums gently urge the song to its conclusion. Joe Tangari, Pitchfork Media Tracklisting/Lyrics: 1. Punk as Fuck 2. The Only One [Guitar Tabs] 3. Like Foxes Through Fences [Guitar Tabs] 4. The Postman 5. Choir Vandals [Guitar Tabs] 6. Gone to Earth 7. Million Young 8. Kindness of Strangers 9. Know by Heart 10. Slow Company 11. Aaron and Maria [Guitar Tabs] 12. We're Computerizing and We Just Don't Need You Anymore
	Title: Updates Release Date/Label: 09.07.2002/Tiger Style Description: Updates marks American Analog Set's first venture into the world of electronic music, and it sounds as though the trip was a fun one. The EP is not recommended for those looking to discover American Analog Set for the first time, but for anyone who already knows and enjoys the band, what we have here is a refreshing new take on a familiar sound. Eddie Fournier, Delusions of Adequacy Tracklisting/Lyrics: 1. Desert Eagle [All I Want for Christmas Mix] 2. These Days [Amanset Keystroke Mix] 3. Aaron and Maria [Her Space Holiday Mix] 4. Know By Heart [Her Space Holiday Mix] 5. Postman [Styrofoam's Just Like the Nineties Never Happened Mix] 6. We're Computerizing and We Just Don't Need You Anymore [Styrofoam's Freezer Burn Mix]
	Title: Promise Of Love Release Date/Label: 17.07.2003/Tiger Style Description: Promise of Love is a break-up record, hence its toning down of the more confectionary pop found on its 2001 predecessor Know by Heart. The returned love letter on the cover is initially difficult to make out, but once discerned, the theme of betrayed amore is impossible to ignore. And yet it's still a pop offering, with perhaps a little salt to offset the sugar. David Antrobus, PopMatters Tracklisting/Lyrics: 1. Continuous Hit Music [Guitar Tabs] 2. Hard to Find 3. Come Home Baby Julie, Come Home 4. You Own Me 5. Promise of Love 6. The Hatist 7. Fool Around [Guitar Tabs] 8. Modern Drummer
	Title: HOME: Volume 5 (B. Gibbard & Andrew Kenny) Release Date/Label: 30.03.2004/Post-Parlo Description: Both Andrew Kenny (of American Analog Set) and Benjamin Gibbard (from Deathcab for Cutie) strip away their bandmates for some quiet solo plucking and get in touch with their inner singer songwriters. ...Andrew Kenny and Benjamin Gibbard both come from bands that are experts in their respective forms of ambience. Instead of wincing through boneless political tirades or enduring the softcore tyranny of a batch of break-up songs, Home succeeds in importing the atmospheres of their homebases without picking any of the pitfall scabs of a genre covered in them. Terry Sawyer, PopMatters Tracklisting/Lyrics: 1. You Remind Me of Home (Gibbard) 2. Carolina (Gibbard) 3. Farmer Chords (Gibbard) 4. Choir Vandals (Gibbard) 5. Hometown Fantasy (Kenny) 6. Secrets of the Heart (Kenny) 7. Church Mouse in the Church House (Kenny) 8. Line of Best Fit (Kenny)
	Title: Songs of Hurt and Healing (American Analog Set/White Magic) Release Date/Label: 2004/Ouch Description: American Analog Set is first up with three songs and only one of the three I recognize. The track "The Postman" was from a previous release but it has been reworked here. The first AAS track is called "Immaculate Heart" and alone is worth tracking down this EP in a magazine. It is beautiful. "The Postman" is a reworking from a previous album but is presented here very gracefully. It reminds me of why I like American Analog Set. "Play Hurt" is the weakest of the three tracks but is still a nice track. Dennis Scanland, MusicEmissions Tracklisting/Lyrics: 1. Immaculate Heart (American Analog Set) 2. The Postman (American Analog Set) 3. Play Hurt (American Analog Set) 4. Day (White Magic) 5. Twilight (White Magic) 6. Night (White Magic)
	Title: Set Free Release Date/Label: Japan: 27.07.2005/& Records Europe: 6.09.2005/Morr Music Australia: 6.09.2005/Spunk USA: 20.09.2005/Arts & Crafts Description: ...glorious, spectatcular, stupendous. t[skarda], Amansetnews.com forum Tracklisting/Lyrics: 1. Born on the Cusp 2. Immaculate Heart 1 [Guitar Tabs] 3. Immaculate Heart 2 4. Cool Kids Sleep 5. She's Half 6. JR 7. Play Hurt 8. (Theme from) Everything Ends 9. Sharp Briar 10. The Green Green Grass[Guitar Tabs] 11. First of Four 12. Fuck this... I'm leaving