Like longtime contemporary Mark Kozelek, AMC's Mark Eitzel can make the ugliest scene serene, and here's no exception, turning hard living into easy listening (well, at least AAA), speaking the soft truth like some grumpy soothsayer. Telling cautionary tales that have the ability to burrow in thanks to the trojan horse of their almost-innocuous delivery, how much one gets out of The Golden Age may come down to how much one wants to invest in its lyrics and tune into its dark heart.