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American Hearts

by A.A. Bondy

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Album review

Recorded and mixed in a month at The Red Barn in Palenville, NY in January 2007, American Hearts is dark and sardonic but it's not a claustrophobic, tortured not troubled as you'd expect. The record is actually quite beautifully stark and stripped-down and well played, filled with great melodies and warm production. The songs are wonderfully influenced by an amalgam of folk and blues, filtered through the mind of someone who knows what makes a great rock song breathe. Digipak.


About the artist

A.A. Bondy is actually the birth name (the initials stand for Auguste Arthur) of Scott Bondy, the former lead singer of Birmingham, AL's Southern grunge darlings Verbena. After Verbena broke up in 2003, Bondy retreated to his Catskills home in Palenville in upstate New York and in time began writing songs again, emerging with a stripped-down ind...

Track list

  1. How Will You Meet Your End
  2. There's a Reason
  3. Black Rain, Black Rain
  4. Rapture (Sweet Rapture)
  5. American Hearts
  6. No Man Shall
  7. World Without End
  8. Lovers' Waltz
  9. Vice Rag
  10. Killed Myself When I Was Young
  11. Witness Blues
  12. Of the Sea