Be Your Own Pet - Be Your Own Pet

This is a very powerful debut album from Nashville teenagers (I think the total age of the band is 43!) Be Your Own Pet.
An amazingly raw and exciting collection of songs, which you really shouldn't like or listen to out of choice. But, strangely enough it's very easy to keep going back for more!
The sound sometimes seems like an unfocused, raucous banshee-blast which could probably induce a nose bleed if the dial were turned up to 11.
The production is very basic, making the overall effect vicious and clean.
I'm not usually keen on female punk vocalists, but Jemima does well to use her screechiness like a finely tuned instrument. There's also the added bonus that most tracks fight to reach the two and a half minute mark.
The "stand-out" track is the ultra-commercial "Adventure", which I feel shows the band at their most capable and concentrated. Had they have used the same noggin power for the rest of the album, this really could have been something superb, instead "Adventure" is the black sheep of the track list, showing up the other songs like a diamond-clad princess in amongst a crowd of homeless people. 3.5/5