| The Golden Band | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | The American Analog Set |
| Cover: | Amanset_thegoldenband.jpg |
| Released: | July 6, 1999 |
| Recorded: | January–February 1999 |
| Genre: | Indie rock, lo-fi |
| Length: | 40:16 |
| Label: | Emperor Jones |
| Producer: | Andrew Kenny[1] |
| Prev Title: | From Our Living Room to Yours |
| Prev Year: | 1997 |
| Next Title: | Know By Heart |
| Next Year: | 2001 |
The Golden Band is the third studio album studio album by the American indie rock band the American Analog Set, released in 1999 on Emperor Jones Records.[2] [3]
Exclaim! thought that "at last, the band has created melodies and bewitching atmospheres that enhance, rather than negatively emphasise, their deliberate lack of dynamics."[4] The Chicago Tribune noted that the band was moving away from the influence of Stereolab and the Chills, and wrote that "they play brief, unhurried songs and delicate, vibraphone-textured instrumentals that flow dreamily into each other."[5] Texas Monthly opined that "the group's careful silences and hypnotic guitar-vocal motifs could add up to nothing more than pleasing ambience, but the band transcends the surfaces."[6]
AllMusic wrote that "the record insinuates itself on the strength of a subtly expanded emotional palette which lends a haunting new dimension to the group's fragile beauty."