Yours, Mine & Ours
Ashmont
2003
Rating: 8 baby feet out of 10
Pop music - there’s a lot of people out there playing it, but very few doing it well. Joe Pernice, in his various forms, has been crafting nearly perfect pop music since the mid-nineties. He started out with the country tinged Scud Mountain Boys, and moved on to release albums as the PerniceBrothers, Chappaquiddick Skyline, and a solo album; on top of that he’s a novelist as well. To top it all off, not only does he write fabulous songs, but he has one of the best voices in the business as far as I’m concerned. The Pernice Brothers' newest album, ‘Yours, Mine & Ours’, continues down the same path Pernice has been following for a while, but if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it I say. The entire release is a sing-a-long masterpiece from beginning to end, if I even make it to the end that is – many, many times I’ve gotten stuck on the third track, ‘One Foot in the Grave’, only to find myself listening to that same song over and over. If you’re looking for a point of reference for the Pernice Brothers, they remind me of a cross between Teenage Fanclub and Elvis Costello, but they really have their own thing going on that doesn’t sound like either if those performers (although fans of both would most likely enjoy this record). And check’em out live too – as amazing as the records are, live is even better.
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