Pernice Brothers - Who Will You Believe

Released 5th April 2024

Joe Pernice has been writing for a long time--most of his life, in fact--and has crafted a remarkable catalog that boldly reinterprets and recasts classic American pop - Who Will You Believe may be his most moving and nuanced album yet; it's certainly his timeliest.

"These songs were all written during the same time period," he says, "and they all seemed to tap into a mood I was in at the time. I go through spells where I'm a certain way for three or four months. I might be more reticent than usual, or more outgoing. With all of my records--and especially with this one--the songs all feel like they belong together, probably because they all arrived during the same stretch of time."

In a single six-month stretch he was left reeling from the deaths of three close friends, including David Berman, poet and songwriter for Silver Jews and Purple Mountains, and Gary Stewart, the Rhino Records co-founder and tireless