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All killer, no filler, Joe Pernice and Co. turn up the volume and turn in one of their most enjoyable records to date.

For the first few seconds you’d swear this is Morrissey’s “The First Of The Gang To Die”, and it wouldn’t be a stretch to associate that solitary opening chord with the work of one Joe Pernice. As far as recordings go, Joe hasn’t quite done a Colin Meloy, but he has authored a 33 1/3 series book, of his quasi-fictional adolescent experiences with The Smith’s Meat Is Murder. This is not as sordid as it may sound. Rest assured, “Jacqueline Susann” has nothing to do with Morrissey or The Smiths. It’s just a quick 2 minute 30 second rev (screeching guitars as screeching tyres, no less) of the Pernice Brothers’ engine to reintroduce the band into our lives once again. Taken from their latest album, Goodbye, Killer the video clip for “Jacqueline Susann” is an obvious joy to behold. I say this sarcastically of course. You pay peanuts, you get 3 minutes of a guy riding a bicycle.

You can’t keep a good man down: Pete Fijalkowski former frontman for two of England’s finest, yet criminally ignored bands Adorable and Polak, answers my email inquisitions about those bands and his solo album Broken Heart Surgery. For the record when did The Candy Thieves become Adorable was it September 1990 as indicated in Footnotes? [...]

For posterity we present you with an interview with Pete Fijalkowski from 1998 when the dust had settled from Adorable and Polak had just released their first single. Let’s start at the ending for Adorable, which was kind of the beginning of Polak. What actually happened? We were dropped by Creation for the simple financial [...]