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Product description Debut 1998 album! Understated chamber-pop 'n' melancholy alt-country by Joe Pernice (ex-Scud Mountain Boys). Amazon.com Joe Pernice's former band, the Scud Mountain Boys, often dragged a kitchen table and chairs on-stage to replicate the homey feel of their spare and haunting music. Pernice's voice was lovely in that setting--his shy velvet voice floated over the stark horizon of the Scud's country-ish tunes. Here, though, he packs the stage with piano, cello, violin, tympanum, harp, trombone, and even a flugelhorn for a baroque wall of sound, and any hints of country are traded in for Bacharach. While the arrangements are beautiful, and Pernice continues to write amazing and evocative songs, his lovely wisp of a voice is hidden amid all the flowery flourishes. He used to sound lonely on the range, now he sounds lost in the forest. --Tod Nelson Review [Joe Pernice's] new band's elegant piano foundation, irony-free songwriting, and musical debt to Nick Drake and Brian Wilson make [the Pernice Brothers] sound like a Ben Folds Five for adults. -- Entertainment Weekly
