Jemina Pearl ft. Iggy pop - I Hate People
I’m not gonna lie. Be Your Own Pet broke up and a little piece of me died. Then I stumbled across a Jemina Pearl single and posted it up here. Things were good for a while, I was happy with the three songs on her myspace. And then, nothing. Things got quiet, and the booze came back out.Things got dark in my life. I don’t want to talk about it.
And then, in my darkest hour, I Hate People appears on my desktop. The sun came out, birds sang. It was a good day. I smiled, because Jemina Pearl and John Eatherly have quite obviously matured their sound - where a few years ago, ‘I Hate People’ would have been screamed out in an obtuse 1:20, it’s a slick, contrapuntal 3:19 that finally showcases the sharply witty potential a band like Be Your Own Pet never quite fulfilled. Iggy Pop adds, but doesn’t steal the limelight in this oddly sweet duet of shared misanthropy (which as music fans I’m sure makes it highly relatable) and adds magnitude to the much anticipated album, Break It Up, (featuring Dave Sitek too) out on October 6.
And once again I’m happy, basking in the bittersweet precursor of what looks to be the album BYOP could never quite manage.
Break It Up.
01 Heartbeats
02 After Hours
03 Ecstatic Appeal
04 Band on the Run
05 I Hate People [ft. Iggy Pop]
06 Looking For Trouble
07 Retrograde
08 Nashville Shores
09 No Good
10 D Is for Danger
11 Selfish Heart
12 Undesireable
13 So Sick
Alistair
