JOE Pernice and his Scud Mountain Boys were once the unsung forefathers of sparse Alt.country; now the Pernice Brothers cannot even be classified under Americana.
Instead their third album echoes the graceful melancholia of New Order and mellow moodiness of the Beta Band, two of the best of British. "Like a lot of people post 9/11, I contemplated changing my life drastically," says Joe. "In the end, it was all about rediscovering the joy in things, and hanging on to them for dear life. Which is what I did." Pernice, brother Bob and his "usual suspects" spent last summer recording Yours, Mine & Ours in the operating theatre of a cancer surgeon's secluded Vermont summer house, and summer light streams through these tender, lovely and affecting guitar pop songs of troubled relationships, complex emotions and bittersweet truths. Like cigarettes, the price of love goes up and up but Pernice will take the health risk.
Pernice Brothers play Boardwalk, Sheffield, on August 11.
Updated: 10:25 Thursday, August 07, 2003
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