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When the four members of Be Your Own Pet stepped into a practice space in December, 2021, it had been more than a decade since theyd all been in the same room. The quartet had last been together in Londons Heathrow airport, having just played to sold out rooms across the UK. Their trajectory had been fastin the span of two years and starting when they were just 16, BYOP released two albums (via Thurston Moores Ecstatic Peace in the US and XL Recordings in the UK), found themselves magazine cover stars, and played to ravenous crowds around the world. But the flame might have burned too quickly and they decided to call it quits.The quartet had been living in a pressure cookerboth to put on wild performances every night and to keep up with the wild party lifestyle expected to come with their records. You give a bunch of teenagers some money and tell them to go on tour forever? Its probably not the healthiest thing, guitarist Jonas Stein says. I just felt like I could not maintain a healthy emotional status and craved stability. Vocalist Jemina Pearl was facing her own layer of stress as the focal point of constant judgment and attention singing at the center of the stagenot to mention as the only woman in the group. We were all under 21 and were partying our asses off all the time, she says. And I think people had this expectation that the Be Your Own Pet show was gonna be crazy. We needed to be that spectacle every single night, and it was a lot for us to take on.After this white-hot run of a few years as teenagers, the four Nashville musicians moved on, carving their own unique paths. Stein led the way for four studio albums with Turbo Fruits and spun disco records as a DJ, bassist Nathan Vasquez took his own turn at the front with Deluxin, drummer John Eatherly undertook a variety of projects including Public Access T.V., and Pearl released a Thurston Moore- and Iggy Pop-featuring solo album before stepping away to start a family.With a fresh slate of tour dates already booked, Be Your Own Pet are looking forward to sharing this new version of themselves with fans who are thrilled to reconnect and new fans who may not have been old enough to remember their first run. But the band are also longing to reconnect with each other and a part of themselves. Mommy is the bitch in charge, the one in control, Pearl says. Its a reclamation of myself. With that, the quartet are ready to step back out into the wild, vicious Be Your Own Pet world and rough things up again but this time, on their own terms.
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Rebecca
November 17th 2023
Absolutely incredible show. So thankful to have been there! Jemina and the band are so talented!
Portland, OR@Star Theater
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2023 finds Be Your Own Pet not only back with a new album, but stronger than ever before. Due August 25, Mommy bolsters the group’s patented garage punk ferocity with matured songwriting, inspired musicianship, and a fervor to claim their space and define their future. “I’m not your victim, I’m my own person/ I’m not some casualty, I set myself free,” Pearl roars on lead single “Hand Grenade”, propelled forward by a burst of guitar shrapnel from Stein and a time-bomb rhythm section courtesy of Vasquez and Eatherly. Born during the group’s first day of writing, the track is both a vicious rebuke of the sexism and abuse that pervades the music world and a steely refusal to be defined by it. “That song’s one of my little babies,” Pearl says. “By telling our stories and sharing our truth, we can gain power back from a situation where we felt powerless.”
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