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The second record by Joe Pernice's bright-eyed neo-country troupe The Pernice Brothers, The World Won't End is an album that tackles themes of magnificent love, desperate frustration and spirit-mangling depression. This is far from an extended misery-tract, though; well-versed in the canon of Bacharach, Wilson and Big Star, Pernice has always revelled in loosing the most difficult of emotions into a rolling meadow of summertime pop. These 11 tracks are wrapped up in a gorgeous whirl of pedal steel, violin and cello that's elegant, cathartic and--best of all--really nice to listen to when the sunmore…'s out. "Our Time Has Passed" mulls painfully over the nostalgic memories of a dead love affair: "There's a box I still can't open/ There's a name that hurts to say/ I fall in love with the way I'm shaking/ In a crowd I think I see your face". "Working Girl (Sunlight Shines)", meanwhile, is a brief but beautifully observed vignette of a young temp stuck in a dead-end job, left "contemplating suicide or a graduate degree". Throughout, though, Pernice's sympathetic vocal, full of hope and purity, turn such empty impasses into a celebration of humanity. The message of The World Won't End? Simply, that life goes on. --Louis Pattison

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CD

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Retail

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Pernice Brothers - The World Won't End (2001) Retail CD

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