Editorial Reviews
Overcome by Happiness
Music Review:
Music Review
Digital Masterpiece Series Disc Two
Inna Heifetz Performs Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich
Music: Want One [Extra tracks] [Import]
Get Wicked [CD-single] [Import]
High Pressure [Limited Edition] [Import]
Gold [Original recording remastered]
Here I Go Impossible Again/All This Time [CD-single] [Import]
Far East Suite [Original recording remastered]
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 "Winter Daydreams"; The Snow Maiden; Romeo and Juliet [Hybrid SACD]
Amazon.com's Best of 1998
Joe Pernice is to the Eastern Seaboard what Elliott Smith is to the Pacific Northwest: anything but happy, the ex-Scud Mountain Boy forgoes the cowboy Bread covers and surrounds himself with Van Dyke Parks/Brian Wilson-like orchestral arrangements, singing sad, sad songs about suicide and dead love in his fragile warble. Strangely, this makes for a bright gem of a disc filled with 1973-AM-pop-radio-worthy jewels. --Paige La Grone
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... read more