Be Your Own Pet return with "Worship The Whip"

The band released "Hand Grenade" in March, and now they return with brand new single "Worship The Whip", as well as the announcement of their first album in 15 years – Mommy.

“"Worship The Whip" is about the right wing authoritarian personality,” explains Abegg. “Aggressive and domineering to people who don’t think like them, while at heart being a submissive to the authority figures who use and abuse them.”

The single is accompanied by a video which was directed by Jordan William and shot by Ben Chappell.

Following a whirlwind two-year career in the late 00’s that saw the four teenagers release two records via Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace in the US and XL Recordings in the UK, the band had burned out and eventually went on a 15 year hiatus.

Be Your Own Pet's forthcoming album was written and recorded by the three founding members Jemina Pearl Abegg (vox), Jonas Stein (guitar), Nathan Vasquez (bass), and longtime drummer John Eatherly. “For better or worse, we all were slapped in the face that it wasn’t as easy on our own,” Stein says of their hiatus. “We were all moderately successful, but nobody found that Be Your Own Pet chemistry.”

Abegg had previously fitted lyrics into the others’ songs, this time she brought her own song ideas into the writing room for Mommy. “Mommy is the bitch in charge, the one in control,” Pearl says. “It’s a reclamation of myself.”

Tracklist:

1. Worship The Whip
2. Goodtime!
3. Erotomania
4. Bad Mood Rising
5. Never Again
6. Pleasure Seeker
7. Rubberist
8. Big Trouble
9. Hand Grenade
10. Drive
11. Teenage Heaven