Be Your Own Pet : Be Your Own Pet : Review : Rolling Stone

Be Your Own Pet's young hellion Jemina Pearl has a new tattoo on her biceps: the girl from Friday the Thirteenth with a bloody hatchet in her forehead. Obviously, you do not mess with Pearl — and BYOP's riotously excellent Get Awkward is packed with reasons to cross the street when you see her coming. As on Be Your Own Pet's 2006 full-length debut, these Nashville skate-punk kids go for noisy hardcore blasts in the mode of Black Flag, SS Decontrol and the Germs. This time Pearl's scream is deeper and meaner, some songs have actual choruses, and Tony Alva look-alike Jonas Stein revs up some rockabilly guitar riffs — they must have been YouTubing a lot of X and Buzzcocks clips lately. But BYOP remain blissfully bored by the idea of lyrical or musical subtlety, which is why they're so perfect. They celebrate teen romance ("You're a Waste"), girl fights ("Bitches Leave"), mindless violence ("Zombie Graveyard Party") and trash TV (the Beyond the Valley of the Dolls tribute "The Kelly Affair"). Pearl sounds genuinely freaked out in the disconcerting "Creepy Crawl" ("I'm not the girl that I was before/Feel like I'm lying each time I walk through the door"). And for mature sophistication, there's "Food Fight!"

ROB SHEFFIELD

(Posted: Mar 20, 2008)

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5of 5 Stars

You know the album you have a picture of up there is their first album, which was self-titled.

The new Be Your Own Pet album (the one being reviewed in this article) is called "GET AWKWARD".

If you look at the track list above, they're all from the first album also. It seems you guys slipped up a little bit.

This was the state of this review as of April 15th, 2008. I hope you guys fix this and give the new album the proper recognition it deserved. New fans should know what album to look for.

Don't mean to sound like a dick, but you're Rolling Stone. Slip ups like this shouldn't happen.

~Adam~

Mar 15, 2008 16:00:57

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