“In 2004, American Music Club returned from a 10-year hiatus to release *Love Songs for Patriots*, an angry wartime record that occasionally abandoned their usual palette of soft grays and browns for a fiery-red crunch. On smoldering rockers like "Ladies and Gentlemen" and "Patriot's Heart", AMC's Mark Eitzel was a bar-stool prophet calling the nation to account for its moral hypocrisies and empty ”