So who has be your own PET's self-titled debut album of last year? It's pretty good, isn't it? Anyone see them tear up Reds at the Thurston Moore-curated ATP last December? Pretty awesome, right? Have you listened to the self-titled album so many times now, you're getting a bit kinda bored with it?
If you've answered "yes" to these questions, you're probably quite looking forward to their new record, which is due out early next year. Oh, unless you answered "yes" to the last one, in which case you're a) wrong, that record doesn't get boring and b) NOT MY FRIEND.
Whatever you answered, you could do worse than to check out Turbo Fruits, the side project/other band of BYOP's Jonas Stein (guitar) and John Eatherly (drums). Their self-titled debut album came out through the wonderful Ecstatic Peace! label in the US and a label called Ark Recordings here this past summer.
I actually really love that front cover.
It's, as you would expect, very BYOP in tone - essentially, slightly crude and kinda sludgy garage rock played with bucketloads of velocity and enthusiasm and a tremendous sense of fun. It never quite achieves the breakneck velocities of their day job, but the band seem aware that without a frontperson of the calibre of BYOP's Jemina that could end up as something of a folly. But, hey, it's still a fun listen full of it's own charm, and they're after catching them in the afternoon heat at Reading this year they're a good live prospect as well.
And, hell, if nothing else it should tide you over until that elusive new Pet record arrives.
mp3: Turbo Fruits - Pocket Full of Thistles
mp3: Turbo Fruits - Tennessee, Baby
links: turbo fruits @ myspace | esctatic peace! website | ark recordings @ myspace
If you've answered "yes" to these questions, you're probably quite looking forward to their new record, which is due out early next year. Oh, unless you answered "yes" to the last one, in which case you're a) wrong, that record doesn't get boring and b) NOT MY FRIEND.
Whatever you answered, you could do worse than to check out Turbo Fruits, the side project/other band of BYOP's Jonas Stein (guitar) and John Eatherly (drums). Their self-titled debut album came out through the wonderful Ecstatic Peace! label in the US and a label called Ark Recordings here this past summer.
I actually really love that front cover.
It's, as you would expect, very BYOP in tone - essentially, slightly crude and kinda sludgy garage rock played with bucketloads of velocity and enthusiasm and a tremendous sense of fun. It never quite achieves the breakneck velocities of their day job, but the band seem aware that without a frontperson of the calibre of BYOP's Jemina that could end up as something of a folly. But, hey, it's still a fun listen full of it's own charm, and they're after catching them in the afternoon heat at Reading this year they're a good live prospect as well.
And, hell, if nothing else it should tide you over until that elusive new Pet record arrives.
mp3: Turbo Fruits - Pocket Full of Thistles
mp3: Turbo Fruits - Tennessee, Baby
links: turbo fruits @ myspace | esctatic peace! website | ark recordings @ myspace
1 comments:
turboz kick major assss maaaan. they have been since jimmy cushman years agooooo, and they shall continue too. and their new stuff beyound the album OWNS, no downplay necessary.
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