PWR BTTM - Ugly Cherries (2015)

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Title: Ugly Cherries
Year Of Release: 2015
Label: Father/Daughter Records
Genre: Garage Rock
Quality: Mp3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+.cue, log)
Total Time: 27:41
Total Size: 64 / 181 MB
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Tracklist:

1. Short-lived Nightmare (1:05)
2. Dairy Queen (2:30)
3. I Wanna Boi (2:02)
4. Ugly Cherries (2:20)
5. Serving Goffman (2:19)
6. Nu 1 (2:02)
7. West Texas (2:45)
8. 1994 (2:27)
9. C U Around (2:55)
10. All the Boys (2:25)
11. House in Virginia (4:51)

If we’re lucky, the riff on “Ugly Cherries” will go down as a thing of legend. It’s a show-stopping diva moment, like something out of Queen’s playbook or — as my coworker Gabriela likes to say — the toe-tapping grandeur of Riverdance. PWR BTTM’s lead single and title track from their debut full-length starts from there and blows outwards like a bomb made up of frustration, anxiety, and uneasy self-affirmation. “It’s a confrontation: an attempt to unpack my own queerness with humor and self care,” Ben Hopkins explained to Spin. “I just got so fucking tired of wishing I was different so I decided to scream, ‘She’s all right’ until I actually was.” Fake it ’til you make it, and then write a song about it or whatever. The track’s a refinement of the energy the band put forth on their debut EP and recent split, and it captures the tender charm that led us to name the duo a Band To Watch a few months back.