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Overcome By Happiness (CD)

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Pernice Brothers Artist Snapshot:

The Boston-based Scud Mountain Boys were much beloved in 1990s indie circles, as much for leader Joe Pernice's literate and thoughtful take on the alt-country form as for their excellent playing. But when the band dissolved, few were prepared for what followed. In 1998, Sub Pop released Pernice's new band's album, OVERCOME BY HAPPINESS, which abandoned the dour and earth-toned countryisms for an expansive, sun-drenched classic pop sound that employed strings, horns, and keyboards. The Pernice Brothers quickly joined the ranks of the great orchestrated pop bands of the day, and their tuneful, intelligent albums have consistently pleased fans and critics alike.

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DISC 1 for Overcome By Happiness (CD) Album By Pernice Brothers (Artist)
1   Crestfallen
2   Overcome By Happiness
3   Sick Of You
4   Clear Spot
5   Dimmest Star
6   Monkey Suit
7   Chicken Wire
8   Wait To Stop
9   All I Know
10   Shoes And Clothes
11   Wherein Obscurely
12   Ferris Wheel
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (6/5/98, p.85) - "...[Joe Pernice's] new band's elegant piano foundation, irony-free songwriting and musical debt to Nick Drake and Brian Wilson make them sound like a Ben Folds Five for adults." - Rating: A-

Title Note

Pernice Brothers: Joe Pernice (vocals, guitar); Bob Pernice (guitar, vocals).

Additional personnel: Michael Deming (vocals, acoustic & electric piano; Peyton Pinkerton (vocals, guitar); Thom Monahan (vocals, bass); Anhared Stowe, Christine Kolberger (violin); Katrina J. Smith (viola); Katleen Shiano (cello); Susan Cavender Knapp (harp); Mike Jones (flugelhorn); Tim Atherton, David Sporny, Peter McEachearn (trombone); Aaron Sperske (drums, tympanum, percussion).

Producers: Thom Monahan, Michael Deming, Joe Pernice.

Recorded at Studio .45, Hartford, Connecticut.

The ironic title gives no clue to the overwhelmingly melancholic tone of this disc (the title track's lyric is; "You don't feel so overcome by happiness.") Yet, for a release on Sub-Pop, who must bear the onus of spearheading the grunge movement, this record is a surprising tidal wave of pop. That's "pop" as in "songs you must sing along with the very first time you hear them." Sleepy pop. Dreamy pop. So dreamy, in fact, that some of the songs, like dew on the lawn, threaten to evaporate into the air ("Sick Of You.")

The Pernice Brothers are backed up by an orchestra and led by Joe Pernice's breathy, wistful vocals. And some of these hooks will stay with you long after the disc has stopped spinning. So dive into something soft and fluffy, but please listen responsibly; due to the sequencing of the most sedate songs at the end of the record, it is ill advised to operate heavy machinery while listening to this disc.

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