Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward reviewed

Get Awkward Be Your Own Pet XL Recordings Rating: 4 stars (out of 5)

Abrasive, spastic and unabashedly bratty, Be Your Own Pet's Get Awkward is an adolescent response to suburbia-induced monotony. The band's four members, led by female vocalist Jemina Pearl, hail from Nashville, Tenn., but together create a sound more likely to be heard from a small-town garage - sweat-drenched amplification.

Tired of living? Mind-numbingly bored? So are these young guns (Pearl turned 20 while recording), but they wrote a punk record about it - an excellent one at that.

Get Awkward's best track, "Becky," has Pearl singing with such catty fervor about her back-stabbing friend that you hope she hasn't murdered the poor girl yet. But then Pearl snarls, "Now I'm going to juvie for teenage homicide / It would have been cool if you stayed by my side," and it appears she's beaten us to the punch, or stab (the chorus ends with "we'll wait with knives after class").

Murder aside, Get Awkward succeeds in straddling the lines of reality and fantasy, all in the name of kids being loud, obnoxious and, for a lack of a better word, kids.

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