The Pharmacy
Choose Yr Own Adventure
Don’t Stop Believin’

The Pharmacy began in 2002 when Brendhan Bowers and Scott Yoder got together to play garage punk. Since their Vashon Island (surrounded by the Puget Sound) roots, their band has added an array of styles, members, and instruments. Their second full-length album, Choose Yr Own Adventure contains harpsichord, viola, violin, cello, drums, guitar, horns. Its fifth track “Warm and Untorn”, opening with a harpsichord solo, moving to a guitar solo, to a punk scrub at the end of the track, displays the versatility of the band’s talents. Or perhaps my favorite is the closing track “Adieu Adieu”, highlighting the new keyboard player Stefan Rubicz, as well as beautiful violin doubling the guitar line. Its refrain “I do I do/ bid you adieu”, is a pop-laden rich rhyme where “I do” and its homonym “adieu” close the record on a friendly note. Unfortunately the rest of the album, released on the Don’t Stop Believin’ label, lacks a lengthy harpsichord or violin part. In fact, only one thing keeps their album from being a weak collection of pop tunes – their unusual instrumentation. It makes you want to scream, “Give me more harpsichord!” – Jonathan Mendick, Mannerist Zine

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