Be Your Own Pet Album: “Summer Sensation [EP] [Digipak]”

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Be Your Own Pet: Jemina (vocals); Jonas (guitar); Nathan (bass guitar); Jamin (drums). <p>Recording information: 2006. <p>It's difficult not to be taken with Be Your Own Pet; they play an immediately appealing brand of youthful, unhinged punk-pop that takes tips from the Buzzcocks and Blondie, as well as both low-fi DIY bands and contemporary noise-rock acts like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. As the five tracks on their 2006 SUMMER SENSATION EP (released on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace! label) demonstrate, the band, comprised of four teenage high-school friends, specializes in two-minute blasts of manic rock-&-roll energy that are reckless, uplifting, dirty, and beautiful. The vocals of frontwoman Jemina Pearl give the whole EP a sweet bite and a hooligan's vibe that will help keep it in any rock fan's disc player straight through the summer to the first day of school.

Be Your Own Pet is a wonderfully raucous band from the bowels of the South. Apparently, some sour emos aren't too happy with the fact that they viciously insulted some very "talented" bands (who, in my opinion, deserved it). I must say, however, that despite the fact that Be Your Own Pet may sound "talentless" to some, I disagree. Be Your Own Pet, unfortunately for those who may have recently attended Warp Tour '06, does not sound like every other popular band in music today. Be Your Own Pet takes good old fashioned punk and amps it up with a few drops of teenage angst and some nice little riffs and shouts. Yes, their sound may not be a perfectly produced and polished one, but therein lies the fun, and that's what this band is all about: fun. Their lyrics, although good, are not rich and poetic. Bright Eyes this is not. The lyrics are fun and will click instantly with any (well, almost any) teenager, or most music fans in general who have a sense of fun and enjoy a little music which screams, literally, "F**k s**t up!"

The bottom line is this: this is not a band which you and your friends can play while you cry, cut yourselves and discuss how horrible and pointless life is. This is a band for those of us who love music, punk, life, being a teenager, and perhaps the stray party here and there. This is a band for today. This is the band that will chase away the screamo sissy pansies and clear the way for more real music to arrive.