Detailed item info | Track listing | 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
| | Details | | Distributor: | Alternative Dis. Alliance | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | 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.
| | Editorial reviews | ...[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- Entertainment Weekly (06/05/1998)
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