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Be Your Own Pet: Get Awkward PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Geoff Isaac   
Thursday, 10 April 2008
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If simplicity is the key, then the back-to-basics garage rock in the sophomore release by Nashville, Tennessee’s Be Your Own Pet is the perfect lock pick . This is a much more assured, spunkier, smarter, and louder and (most notably) faster outing than their self-titled debut.

Nineteen year-old lead singer Jemina Pearl belts out bitchy vocals about sex, drugs and teenage apathy with persistent lack of subtlety and affective disgust that can only come from one on the cusp of adulthood.

With new drummer John Eatherly added to the fray, and guitarist Jonas Stein’s catchy three-chord progressions, Be Your Own Pet have managed to infuse the sound with more choruses, tempo changes and a calculated zeal that makes the songs feel more composed than written.

This is no more apparent than in the first single “The Kelly Affair”, with its infectious groove and a snappy lyric (Everybody here parties all the time! /Everybody here's got sex on their minds! / It could be dangerous.) She gets the mad fervor just right on “Black Hole” (Living in this city, I get so bored / Wanna kill myself on a telephone cord), and on “Bummer Time” she gets help from the boys on vocal backup, making this record sound more like a cohesive band.

“Music for the neck downwards” is how Keith Richards summed up Rock and Roll, and that is a most fitting description of Get Awkward if there ever was one.

Mosh pits at the ready...

This Reviewer's Rating: 4.0 / 5





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