One Little Indian

Released: June 14 2010



Back with their first album since 2006, Pernice Brothers offer 10 tracks of pretty uniform breezy guitar-pop, all melancholic and bittersweet like it should be. There’s a strong strain of dusty Americana running through tracks like opener ‘Bechamel’ and the sweet-natured title track which is charming if sometimes a little too trad. Sometimes it feels a bit by-the-numbers, music made a few good old boys strumming their guitars and snoozing on the couch. Thankfully, enough moments like the cranky guitar on ‘Some for You’ and the rocky ‘Fucking and Flowers’ crop up to keep the listener interested, although sometimes you can’t help but feel Pernice Brothers had more of a fun time recording Goodbye, Killer than most people will have listening to it. Only one here track really doesn’t work, that being the jokey ‘We Love the Stage’, which wonders too far into what could be called country and western vaudeville. Otherwise, the songs here stay just on the right side of alt-country.

6/10

Posted In Album Reviews, Jun 13 2010. Words - Richard