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About 20,000 Streets Under The Sky
Amazon.com Brothers Dave and Serge Bielanko are the core of Marah, a band they started in the mid-'90s in Philadelphia. Over the course of their first three albums they wowed critics and audiences alike. They can be anthemic, like a cross between Bruce Springsteen and the Replacements. They can also be as acerbic as Graham Parker, as iconoclastic as Beck, and as ambitious as everyone from Pete Townshend to Stephin Merritt. It is ambitiousness which fuels the overarching dramatic curve of their fourth album, 20,000 Streets Under the Sky. It's filled with details: individual narratives float through the songs, populated as they are with all manner of urban dwellers, met at eye level. One need not focus on these aspects and still be knocked out by the sheer catchy power of the songs. "Freedom Park," though rife with broken bottles and the remnants of drug deals, is nothing if not an audio celebration. Like the Ashcan School painters in the first half of the 20th century, Marah are finding beauty in the commonplace, the broken, and abandoned. --David Greenberger Product Description The fourth album from Philadelphias Marah and their first for Yep Roc, "20,000 Streets Under the Sky" is, by their own estimation, the album Dave & Serge Bielanko have always wanted to make. With songs about (in Serges words)"pigeons, cocaine, pizza, young love, bullets in the head, transvestites, a beautiful little baby, and the strange optimism one might feel watching jets take off in the evening at Newark Airport. "Streets" follows the Bielanko brotherstriumphant return to the road, energized by a dynamic new lineup (featuring Superchunk drummer Jon Wurster, multi-instrumentalist Kirk "the Barber" Henderson and lap steel whiz Mike "Slo-Mo" Brenner). This is the sound of a band gleefully taking their lives back into their own hands or as Serge puts it, "I guess you could say "20,000 Streets Under the Sky" is our love letter to people everywhere who, just like us, keep waking up everyday hoping to turn it all around...." Digipak. Review Marah will shortly release what would, in a world with ears, be one of 2004's most-loved straight-ahead rock albums.. -- NEW YORK TIMES - Nick Hornby May 21, 2004 About the Artist When a band like Marah manages to put together a series of releases all capable of inducing paroxysms of pleasure in jaded music critics, it is tempting -- if not inevitable -- to repeat the exact same formula on its next release, 20,000 Streets Under The Sky. Well, that's not Marah's style. "Most music is a pack of lies," says Marah singer/guitarist/songwriter Dave Bielanko, "I can't honestly believe what I hear on the radio. For many bands, it's just about what rhymes. We've always tried to write songs that you can stand behind. I believe people are smart enough to appreciate it if you make an effort." Call the group confounding; call them, as some critics have, "the bastard children of Rolling Stones, Counting Crows and Guided By Voices," or the "musical love child" of Van Morrison, Creedence and Bruce Springsteen (The Boss made a guest appearance on their last album!).
