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POP NOTES.(music group Be Your Own Pet)(Brief article)

The New Yorker

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PET SOUNDS -- We go to songs for the truth, to hear timeless verities that we do not express in our day-to-day lives. For example: "We all have holes in our socks, and Bad Brains totally rocks." Cautious, well-dressed adults might hesitate before singing these words, but those people are just dumb. Be Your Own Pet are four teen-agers from Nashville (one seventeen, two eighteen, one freshly nineteen) who sound exactly as old as they are. Their style is basic punk rock played fast and loose but skillfully, with an eye to getting things right, even when falling apart feels like fun. The Buzzcocks come to mind more than once over the course of listening to Be Your Own Pet's thirty-three-minute, eponymously titled debut album (Ecstatic Peace). Songs do not usually make it to the three-minute mark, and even live shows average under half an hour. The drummer, Jamin Orrall, has the confidence and drive of someone at least four ...

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