'Growing Up In Americana"or '3 throwaway songs from the gotham of the mind'reflections in songs imbued with a weariness, and images/shots/cutaways from periods spent recently in New York. This echoes growing up in London with a sense that New York City was a kind of promised land in the imaginations of post holocaust generation Jewish kids in Britain. It was also a place we had relatives and history. The city becomes a fetishised fiction that turns out to be real. The music hangs between urban country and western and tired torchsong.
