It’s been four years since The Pierces made it big with Thirteen Tales of love and Revenge, which rould eventually save them from extinction after the first albums of the two sisters had been almost unnoticeable by the international media.
After two EPs – Love You More and You’ll Be Mine -, the much expected new long-play has arrived. You & I is a record of maturity, beauty, and much more connected to the hippie roots that forged Catherine and Allison’s childhood than its antecessor. Though Love You More would make us believe in a Tarantinesque ambience, the acoustic versions that kept on leaking through the web showed that The Pierces were going for the gold when it comes to vocal harmonies, putting all the chips on the folk-rock song while leaving behind some of the Big Apple inspiration that had been colouring Thirteen Tales.
You’ll Be Mine was one of the major follow-up singles after Love You More, and was given the privilege of opening the album. Although it is indeed a beautiful song, it doesn’t have the usual strength of the two sisters’ composing, and one could be led to wonder if You & I would keep up to the expectations its predecessor had built. But suddenly the record breaks in the beautiful and folk-rooted It Will Not Be Forgotten. The A-side is undoubtly the strongest of the album, full of successful singles – Love You More, We Are Stars and Glorious – and closing with another Tarantino-like song, a filmic slow adventure called The Good Samaritan.
Kissing You Goodbye and Close My Eyes become a little dull after all the excitement given by the first six songs, but their fabulous arrangements bring us back to Thirteen Tales and prepare us for giant leap of Space + Time and Drag You Down, with their catchy choruses and simple but effective songwriting. The closing of the album is wonderfully done by I Put Your Records On, a much more mature farewell song than Go to Heaven, but nevertheless brilliant as a finale.
It’s nothing if not exciting being able to find a wonderfully concepted album these days; one that flows naturally and which existence enriches undoubtfully your record shelf, leaving you with the certainty that you will always play it from beginning to the end, for it is much bigger than its singles. The girls go retro every way; even when ir comes to doing genius records.
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