STREAM ‘KIND OF ACOUSTIC’ IN FULL NOW HERE
A refreshing new take on some of their finest cuts to date, the Essex four-piece have transformed 12 of their favourite tracks into earthy, acoustic, new guises.
Decamping to the tiny Welsh village of Borth, the band worked with producer Mike West, where they spent four frantic days reworking favourites from their repertoire to date them and performing them live in the village’s deconsecrated church, Our Lady Studio.
Receiving early praise from PUNKTASTIC, the mag has championed the innovative reworkings as “giving the space to unwrap the bandages around their inner wounds to make the depths of their sound more visible is a thing of grimy beauty. ‘Kind Of Acoustic’ captures the zeitgeist in twelve bursts of rowdy introspection that burn all the brighter in its more diminished form.” While in an 8.5/10 review, Liverpool Sound & Vision enthused: “Pet Needs triumph with demonstrative prejudice of cool, the image of them raising Hell in the deconsecrated church is palpable, exotic, colourful, insanely cool.”
Alongside acoustically rewired lead singles ‘The Burning Building’ and ‘Punk Isn’t Dead (It’s Just Up For Sale)’, the other ten tracks on offer here include singles (“Get On The Roof”, “Ibiza In Winter”, “Fear For The Whole Damn World”), plus a smorgasbord of fan (and band) picks from their debut “Fractured Party Music”, fiery follow-up “Primetime Entertainment”, and Official Top 20 Album ‘Intermittent Fast Living’. ‘Kind of Acoustic’ is streaming on all major services now (released via Xtra Mile Recordings): https://orcd.co/petneedskindofacoustic
Supporting the release, PET NEEDS are currently on the road for a run of acoustic shows this January and February - remaining tickets are on sale now.
Later this year, the band also have two special FRACTURED PARTY IV shows in London in May, with support from Sonic Boom Six, Shed and Pageant Mum at a full band electric show at The Garage on 4th May; while Generation Feral will support at two acoustic shows on 3rd May at The Church in Stoke Newington. Final tickets on sale now.
PET NEEDS - UK TOUR DATES
JANUARY
28 - The Parish, Huddersfield
29 - Lincoln Drill Hall, Lincoln
30 - The Frog & Fiddle, Cheltenham
31st - In Cider Festival
FEBRUARY
1 - St Stephen's Church, Ipswich
MAY
- FRACTURED PARTY IV -
3 - THE CHURCH, Stoke Newington, London - SOLD OUT
w/ Generation Feral
4 - THE GARAGE, London
w/ Sonic Boom Six, Shed, & Pageant Mum
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