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PERNICE BROTHERS - Live A Little
| Entertainment Weekly | | Since Joe Pernice abandoned the country-rock of Scud Mountain Boys for the Bacharachian pop of Pernice Brothers, increasing polish has threatened to sterilize the dark ambiguity of his songs. So it's a delight to report that Live a Little — despite kicking off with a song called ''Automaton'' — finds Pernice throwing off the shackles of overenunciation and fussy production. Grand piano, strings, and horns actually soften the edges of their metronomic precision, and the track about a relationship-salvaging road trip even erupts with handclaps....full text |
| | SoundsXP | | Not so long ago, quality US rock music, if not an oxymoron, was a threat, rather than a promise, of sub-Springsteen stadium straining. Gradually though more indie acts such as Wilco, Grant Lee Phillips and even Frank Black have reclaimed it for the less bombastic and more intelligently minded....full text |
| | MusicOMH.com | | If only Morrissey wasn't such a stubborn old sod. After all those years hanging around in the USA he's never shown any inclination to start dabbling in Alt-Country, or to talk in a Deep South accent. This to some degree is a great shame. After all who wouldn't want to see the great man take to the stage accompanied only by Skeeter, a man who blows rhythm sections out of an empty bottle?...full text |
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