![]() ![]() With engineer/musician extraordinaire Liam Jaeger, they reworked/mixed the songs worth the time in Toronto and kept recording new songs until ‘Spread The Feeling’ was done. Joe Pernice recorded a full length Pernice Brothers record a few years back, but ditched it after it was mixed. The new album features Neko Case on “The Devil and The Jinn” and Pete Yorn on “Throw Me to The Lions”. ‘Spread the Feeling’ is the Pernice Brothers’ first album since 2010’s ‘Goodbye, Killer’. All songs were written by Peter except for “Master Of Destruction” which was written by Jamie who also produced the album. Working again with his sons Jamie (guitars) and Peter Jr (bass), the former Only Ones leader releases another brilliant album. Years ago, Peter Perrett flirted with death with “”Another Girl, Another Planet””, but in 2017, he made a comeback and released the stunning ‘How the West Was Won’. The album cover art portrays Andrew Bird recreating French painter Jacques-Louis David’s 1793 La Mort de Marat painting, depicting the death of Jean-Paul Marat, a French revolutionary leader. ‘My Finest Work Yet’ is very poetic and beautiful. Andrew’s vocals, his guitar and violin work are first-rate. ![]() The opening track, “Sisyphus” starts out with Bird’s signature whistling. Forster’s wife Karin Bäumler provides beautiful accompaniment on a range of tracks, from violin on the gorgeous “One Bird in the Sky” to whimsical glockenspiel on “Life Has Turned A Page”. The poetic characteristics continue on this beautifully produced record. Former Go-Betweens frontman Robert Forster’s seventh solo album, ‘Inferno’ opens with “Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgement”, loosely adapted from Irish poet William Butler Yeats’ 1933 poem. ![]()
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