Pernice Brothers - Live a Little
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Artist: Pernice BrothersEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-10-03
Music Label: Ashmont Records
Soundtracks:
- Automaton
- Somerville
- Cruelty To Animals
- Zero Refills
- Microscopic View
- How Can I Compare
- B.S. Johnson
- Pch One
- Conscience Clean (I Went To Spain)
- Lightheaded
- High As A Kite
- Grudge F*** (2006)
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Free Music Review: Criminally Unknown
Hit: 5 Stars
Overrated? The Pernice Brothers are one of the finest groups on the planet, but unknown to most people. Their CDs are uniformly excellent, as are all the CDs put out by Joe Pernice. I've never had the pleasure of seeing them live, but their music is on my heavy rotation list - I very short one, as I have a huge collection. When I think of "A Good Feeling to Know" by Poco, "Extension of A Man"" by Donny Hathaway, and "Smash Your Head Against The Wall"/Whistle Rhymes" by John Entwistle, I'm looking back on Criminally underrated CDs that should have launched those artists to the top of the charts. I think of every Joe Pernice CD in the same way. It's a shame that he's not known to more of the public. There is no better songwriter out there right now.
Live a Little Poster
Live a Little is the sixth recording by The Pernice Brothers, and it marks as much a return to form as it does a departure from what came before it.For one thing, there's the reunion of Joe Pernice and producer Michael Deming, who worked on the recordings of Joe's previous band, the Scud Mountain Boys, as well as the very first Pernice Brothers record, Overcome By Happiness. This one has strings AND horns, which has not been part of the formula (and it IS indeed a formula) since OBH. But, and this is a mighty exception, it's much more of a rock record than that was, representing the running of big fat analog tape while sweaty guys played loud rock music on well-crafted instruments through amplifiers and pounded on sweet, old, drum kits. Oh, and it marks a return to New England, having been recorded in Connecticut, which one of the band members used to disparage as nothing more than the state in his when he wanted to travel from Massachusetts to New York. He's now grown to pay it the respect it deserves as a rock mecca, hiding in plain sight.
Lyrically, it's another masterpiece, and if distinctions must be drawn, perhaps this one's a bit more literary, where the last one Discover a Lovelier You was somewhat more cinematic. "PCH One" probably could have been a Scud Mountain Boys song, and "Grudge F*** (2006) was a Scud Mountain Boys song (without the 2006), but instead of the gentle, almost lazy, plaintive plodding of the original recording, the Pernice Brothers version out-Badfingers Badfinger and that's good. You can feel its pain. It also has the trademark Pernice geography obsession. There are eleven very excellently crafted and executed new songs in all, plus the aforementioned "Grudge," which is indeed a stunner.
During and after his days as the leader of Massachusetts band the Scud Mountain Boys, which fizzled after their dazzling 1996 Sub Pop release, Joe Pernice has crafted his songs with a juxtaposed blueprint--hummable melodies and a lush pop tenor camouflaging lyrics that reek of anxiety and aggravation. "Struggling through the S's/Through the tunnels in the trees/Through the sticky optimism hardening in me," he mordantly confesses in "PCH One," among the best of the dozen songs that make up the Pernices' sixth full-length record. Backed by brother Bob and ace guitarist Peyton Pinkerton, Pernice's unblemished voice is the key instrument, whether lamenting a spurious hometown ("Somerville") or summating a breakup ("Conscience Clean") with one telltale line: "So I threw a dart at Europe/She hit Michigan." But the band saves the most poignant track for last, a remake of the Scuds' "Grudge F***," in which Pernice pleads for one last encounter with an ex-lover. It's the kind of song that once sold a million for AM radio bands like Bread, and wraps up in 4:57 what the Pernice Brothers are all about. --Scott Holter
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