I am excited to see that two of my favorite bands have just released new albums.
The criminally underrated Pernice Brothers released their fifth album, Discover A Lovelier You of which Amazon says: “…no one can breath breezy, sun-splashed melodies into three-minute fits of aggravation and despair quite like songwriting maestro Joe Pernice.”
Only Joe Pernice can sing lyrics like “There’s a train wreck picking up survivors from a plane crash/on the TV life and it’s a sad static quotent waiting for the sky to fall” in a way that makes you want to bop your head while singing along with the top down.
Meanwhile, the more well-known but still underrated moody power pop gods Teenage Fanclub released Man-Made, the group’s first record of new material in five years. According to All Music Guide, Man-Made “is near-perfect Teenage Fanclub and is therefore near-perfect guitar pop.”
Because albums from both the Pernice Brothers and Teenage Fanclub made my top 10 of 2003, expectations from Scrappy are quite high for both these rekkids.