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Live a Little sounds more open and roomy than the past few Pernice Brothers efforts.
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Pernice's unblemished voice is the key instrument.
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No alarms, no surprises.
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Live a Little... finds Pernice throwing off the shackles of overenunciation and fussy production.
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If there were any criticism to be leveled at this album, it's that it is a little bland around the edges.
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Thankfully, on Live a Little, he... sticks to what he does best: creating lovely, literate pop-rock.
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It's only a slightly subtler version of the winning formula that produced critical favorites like Yours, Mine & Ours, but it's just as impossible not to like.
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Under The RadarThe Pernice Brothers continue their string of classic pop albums with their fifth full-length, Live A Little, expanding on their already pristine pop sound. [#15]
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BlenderThe only emotion here is the hothouse loneliness of an overintellectualized mind. [Nov 2006, p.154]
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MagnetHis best since 2001's The World Won't End. [#73, p.104]
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Q MagazineThe results, while never quite suggesting imminent breakthrough, are sometimes elegiac. [Nov 2006, p.147]
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Pernice can be as lyrically dense as Elvis Costello, and he nears Imperial Bedroom heights of dizzy grandiosity with this latest collection of ringers.
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Sad, sweet and mature as ever, the Pernice Brothers keep twisting their emotional kaleidoscope to great effect.
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Uncut[It] revisits the chamber pop of their 1998 debut... equalling it in beauty and surpassing it in punch. [Nov 2006, p.123]
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Listening to Joe endlessly bombard the listener with rejiggered cliches and breathless streams of imagery and other examples of his lyrical craft, it sounds less like skillful, effortless writing and more like showy, over-considered craftwork.
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Another lovely little package.
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SpinStartling turns of phrase are just another of this stunning album's grim charms. [Nov 2006, p.103]
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MojoIf only all pop music could be this smart and soulful. [Dec 2006, p.106]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 10
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Negative: 1 out of 10
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DaveDec 1, 2006Great CD, definitely in my top 10 for the year. Can't wait to see them live next week!!
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RolfCNov 13, 2006
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davidgOct 21, 2006another great record. listen a few times and you'll see.