Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward
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Be Your Own Pet
Release Date: 17/03/08
Label: XL Recordings
Rating: ***
The second album from Nashville quartet Be Your Own Pet doesn’t seem very far from their début at all; still as hyper as schoolchildren OD-ing on Sherbet Dip-Dabs, still noisier than a car-lot beset with car alarm problems, and still as chaotic as an animals vs humans riot at a zoo, it’ll likely be either an irritating racket or just your cup of fun.
Chirpy, energetic and ever so slightly unhinged, this is music by young people for young people. Preoccupied with boys, partying and having fun, the themes are all on topics teenagers can relate to. Growing up is a no-no – vocalist Jemina Pearl says as much during opener ‘Super Soaked’ recorded on her birthday: “I don’t want to have responsibility/I don’t want to be part of society/I just want to run around/I just want to party down.”
The music suits the album title; the angular, jarring riffs and Pearl’s Hayley Williams-meets-Juliette Lewis vocals make proceedings as clumsy and erratic as they are caffeine to the eyeballs. It brings marmite results; plenty of teens will find this connective and appealing, but many more will find it irritating after barely two tracks. Luckily, if they make it that far they’ll reach ‘Heart Throb’, the epitome turbo-charged punk rock of the most hormone-driven kind, and the band’s finest moment to date. It’s an energy that surely can’t last for many more albums, but if there’s anyone that can carry it, it’s Be Your Own Pet. It’s like Peter Pan, only less boys in tights and much noisier.
Phillip May
Be Your Own Pet Official Site
Be Your Own Pet Myspace
XL Recordings
Buy Be Your Own Pet CDs | Buy Be Your Own Pet mp3s | Buy Be Your Own Pet Tickets | Buy Be Your Own Pet Merch
Release Date: 17/03/08
Label: XL Recordings
Rating: ***
The second album from Nashville quartet Be Your Own Pet doesn’t seem very far from their début at all; still as hyper as schoolchildren OD-ing on Sherbet Dip-Dabs, still noisier than a car-lot beset with car alarm problems, and still as chaotic as an animals vs humans riot at a zoo, it’ll likely be either an irritating racket or just your cup of fun.
Chirpy, energetic and ever so slightly unhinged, this is music by young people for young people. Preoccupied with boys, partying and having fun, the themes are all on topics teenagers can relate to. Growing up is a no-no – vocalist Jemina Pearl says as much during opener ‘Super Soaked’ recorded on her birthday: “I don’t want to have responsibility/I don’t want to be part of society/I just want to run around/I just want to party down.”
The music suits the album title; the angular, jarring riffs and Pearl’s Hayley Williams-meets-Juliette Lewis vocals make proceedings as clumsy and erratic as they are caffeine to the eyeballs. It brings marmite results; plenty of teens will find this connective and appealing, but many more will find it irritating after barely two tracks. Luckily, if they make it that far they’ll reach ‘Heart Throb’, the epitome turbo-charged punk rock of the most hormone-driven kind, and the band’s finest moment to date. It’s an energy that surely can’t last for many more albums, but if there’s anyone that can carry it, it’s Be Your Own Pet. It’s like Peter Pan, only less boys in tights and much noisier.
Phillip May
Be Your Own Pet Official Site
Be Your Own Pet Myspace
XL Recordings
Buy Be Your Own Pet CDs | Buy Be Your Own Pet mp3s | Buy Be Your Own Pet Tickets | Buy Be Your Own Pet Merch
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