Grunge influences and 90s alt rock nods are still around in contemporary music. Indoor Pets definitely channel the energy of Nirvana, Pixies and Jane’s Addiction, while retaining their own 2020s sound. It’s so well executed that it feels like a great big shot of adrenaline.
‘London’ and the title track are fuzzy, pile-driving songs as fuzzy as they’re energetic, while ‘Sadness Is A Phase’ sees them clinging to introspection like the band Greta Gerwig would have loved to hire for the prom in Lady Bird.
Anchoring it all is the sweet, sardonic vocal of Jamie Glass, who invests the songs with a keen wit and outsider’s perspective. It’s enough to make you yearn for the days when DMs meant Doc Martens, and Facebook vitriol was an insult hurled directly at you, as opposed to from behind a keyboard. Such innocent days.
You may not want to dig out the old Mudhoney EPs and flannel shirts (nothing wrong with either of these,obviously) but this is an album which mines the sweetest, most heady parts of nostalgia, and it’s perfect for Spring. Dude.
Out now via Alcopop! Records
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