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DRAWN TO REVOLVING DOORS
(Averimusic.com)
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Few bands boast rocking pop songs as clean as Averi’s. This Boston-based quintet’s self-released third album sounds as if it should be a major-label debut. It’s not just that singer-songwriter Chad Perrone pens love stories with deep hooks and carries off graceful melodies in a pleasing, high voice, or that you can hear everything from the small dips of a guitar’s tremolo bar to subtle keyboard pads that support verses with near-transparency. They bring an upbeat energy to almost everything, whether they’re affirming the power of love in "The Way We Go Out" or detailing the struggle for identity in "Mouth Full of Sand." And both on CD and on stage, Averi sound big. That is, until they want to sound small. The closing "Goodnight, Goodbye" is an intimate acoustic-guitar ballad, and Perrone makes his way gently through its lyrics about a young man in a sick room watching an elderly loved one slide toward death. The song celebrates the beauty of a long life well lived — which is a wise perspective for a group whose career may be just beginning.
