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Artist: Pernice Brothers
Release: Overcome By Happiness
Released: 1998
Label: Sub Pop
Catalog#: 427
Format: FLAC / Lossless / Log (100%) / Cue
[color=blue]Country: USA
Style: indie pop rock

1 - Crestfallen (3:53)
2 - Overcome by Happiness (3:40)
3 - Sick of You (1:23)
4 - Clear Spot (2:21)
5 - Dimmest Star (3:48)
6 - Monkey Suit (3:01)
7 - Chicken Wire (4:05)
8 - Wait to Stop (3:29)
9 - All I Know (2:51)
10 - Shoes and Clothes (2:47)
11 - Wherein Obscurely (3:02)
12 - Ferris Wheel (4:40)

Listeners expecting a continuation of the Scud Mountain Boys' slow, grim alt-country sound will be surprised by the wholesale changes wrought on Overcome by Happiness -- Joe Pernice has gone pop, and the results are quite promising. Recorded in part with a ten-piece orchestra, the record is closer to chamber pop than roots rock, with the bright, sunny songs adorned in piano and horns; tracks like "Monkey Suit" and "Clear Spot" are instantly engaging, their sheer hummability alone suggesting not merely a radical creative reassessment but a total artistic rebirth.