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From Amazon.com:
Joe Pernice's former band, the Scud Mountain Boys, often dragged a kitchen table and chairs on-stage to replicate the homey feel of their spare and haunting music. Pernice's voice was lovely in that setting--his shy velvet voice floated over the stark horizon of the Scud's country-ish tunes. Here, though, he packs the stage with piano, cello, violin, tympanum, harp, trombone, and even a flugelhorn for a baroque wall of sound, and any hints of country are traded in for Bacharach. While the arrangements are beautiful, and Pernice continues to write amazing and evocative songs, his lovely wisp of a voice is hidden amid all the flowery flourishes. He used to sound lonely on the range, now he sounds lost in the forest. --Tod Nelson
Joe Pernice is to the Eastern Seaboard what Elliott Smith is to the Pacific Northwest: anything but happy, the ex-Scud Mountain Boy forgoes the cowboy Bread covers and surrounds himself with Van Dyke Parks/Brian Wilson-like orchestral arrangements, singing sad, sad songs about suicide and dead love in his fragile warble. Strangely, this makes for a bright gem of a disc filled with 1973-AM-pop-radio-worthy jewels. --Paige La Grone
| Artist: | The Pernice Brothers | | Binding: | Audio CD | | EAN: | 0098787042726 | | Original Release Date: | 1998-05-19 | | Release Date: | 2002-03-01 | | UPC: | 098787042726 |
Tracks:- Crestfallen
- Overcome by Happiness
- Sick of You
- Clear Spot
- Dimmest Star
- Monkey Suit
- Chicken Wire
- Wait to Stop
- All I Know
- Shoes and Clothes
- Wherein Obscurely
- Ferris Wheel
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