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For anyone who loved “High Fidelity” and wants a woman's perspective on the early aughts music scene, “Deep Cuts” is both a love story between two people whose timing is always off, and a love letter to the thing that moves all of us-music.
Percy Marks isn't meant for the limelight. A born critic, she loves two things: music, and talking about it. She can tell you why that jangly Beach Boys riff makes your chest swell, or why the plaintive twang of Jeff Mangum's voice cuts right to your heart. To her great shame, Percy can't sing or play an instrument, but she'll argue about songs with anyone who will listen, including the record store snobs of Berkeley, where she is a student.
Enter Joe Morrow. A popular student and talented musician, Joe bonds with Percy dissecting a Hall & Oates song they hear playing at a college bar. Percy immediately recognizes that intense, charismatic Joe is a star in the making. When she begins giving Joe notes on his music, refining his raw sound over late-night coffee dates, the vastly improved songs thrill them both. And there's something else between them, an undercurrent to the music they're creating, something undeniably electric, barreling toward love.
But the music keeps getting in the way. It pains Percy to watch Joe sing their songs on stage, for all her smarts, she could never do what he does, and he doesn't want to risk their musical connection on a relationship. While Percy throws herself into a career that has her crisscrossing the country and building a following as a music blogger, Joe reaps the benefits of her contributions to his music and becomes the embodiment of all that she can't have. Percy must decide if the excitement of loving and creating with Joe is worth the pain of being sidelined by his talent-or if becoming her own artist means finally letting him go.
Percy Marks isn't meant for the limelight. A born critic, she loves two things: music, and talking about it. She can tell you why that jangly Beach Boys riff makes your chest swell, or why the plaintive twang of Jeff Mangum's voice cuts right to your heart. To her great shame, Percy can't sing or play an instrument, but she'll argue about songs with anyone who will listen, including the record store snobs of Berkeley, where she is a student.
Enter Joe Morrow. A popular student and talented musician, Joe bonds with Percy dissecting a Hall & Oates song they hear playing at a college bar. Percy immediately recognizes that intense, charismatic Joe is a star in the making. When she begins giving Joe notes on his music, refining his raw sound over late-night coffee dates, the vastly improved songs thrill them both. And there's something else between them, an undercurrent to the music they're creating, something undeniably electric, barreling toward love.
But the music keeps getting in the way. It pains Percy to watch Joe sing their songs on stage, for all her smarts, she could never do what he does, and he doesn't want to risk their musical connection on a relationship. While Percy throws herself into a career that has her crisscrossing the country and building a following as a music blogger, Joe reaps the benefits of her contributions to his music and becomes the embodiment of all that she can't have. Percy must decide if the excitement of loving and creating with Joe is worth the pain of being sidelined by his talent-or if becoming her own artist means finally letting him go.