You'll Love It If You Are The Loving Kind

It seems these days everybody fights for winning the first prize at the category "My pop song/album is better than yours", or else I don't know how to explain things. Now it's time for Pernice Brothers – their seventh album, Goodbye, Killer, is ready to be released.

For over a decade, these guys tried to teach us the lesson about how you can write songs that are a perfect mix of country, folk and pop-rock, and they seemed to improve with every album they released. Goodbye, Killer is not an exception. It represents the finest soundtrack (it seems that these days I use this word a lot) for a lazy summer afternoon, when all you can do is lay in your bed, but also for a cold winter day, when all you want is to stay at home and enjoy warmness.

The instrumentals express perfectly the idea of "unity in diversity" – probably the most proper word to describe them is "stunning". If you really want to learn how you can create something complex and simple at the same time, all you have to do is pay attention to them because they are the perfect example. Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, gentle drums, and some background instruments (including tambourine) fit perfectly, wearing a kind of 70s fragrance that will please you to the core.

As for the lyrics… if you're a sentimental, I'm sure you will shed at least a tear or two until the end of the album. And even if you're not, you cannot help but to be impressed by lyrics as "It can’t be fixed with time / I'd love you if I was the loving kind" (Not the Loving Kind, which is one of my favourite tracks on the album). Let's not talk about vocals, or else I'm afraid that I'm never going to finish this review.

Goodbye, Killer is a serious candidate for the first prize at the category we were talking about at the beginning of this article. It's a very good album and if you're the sensitive type, it would be a shame to miss it. If you're not, you should still give it a try, you might be surprised about what you will find.


*photo courtesy of Pernice Brothers official site