PET NEEDS ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM BEFORE SETTING OFF ON TOUR |

Essex punk-rock risers – PET NEEDS – have announced details of their third album ‘Intermittent Fast Living’ (out 16 February 2024 via Xtra Mile Recordings). Featuring lead single “Separation Anxiety”, the announcement precedes an extensive UK Tour this November/December, which includes their biggest headline show to date.

On Wednesday night, Northern Exposure headed down to their Liverpool Arts Club and were amongst some of the first few to experience the brand new album which shows no signs of the Essex punk band slowing down.

Pet Needs (PHOTO CREDIT Kayleigh Nickson)

INTERMITTENT FAST LIVING

New album, ‘Intermittent Fast Living’, their third studio release in as many years, is inspired by the relentless, breathless, stop-start lifestyle PET NEEDS have found themselves living in recent times.

Founded with humble bedroom-band beginnings by brothers Johnny (vocals) and George (guitar) Marriott and later joined by Jack (drums) and Ryan (bass) only a matter of years ago, PET NEEDS’ career has been sky-rocketing ever since the release of their acclaimed debut Fractured Party Music in 2021. From getting signed to SOLD OUT shows, rave reviews to rabid fans, and embarking on extensive global tours with the likes of Frank Turner, The Hives, The Lottery Winners, Skinny Lister; demand for these four lads from Essex has been on a trajectory with the stratosphere.

But being strapped-in to the big dipper that is living the rock’n’roll lifestyle most kids can only dream of, while trying to balance a steady family life at home, is not without its challenges. And by perpetually riding around what frontman Johnny describes as “a dream-like tornado”, they have found themselves jolting between a life in the fast lane and “the security and stillness” of being with those they love. Channelling the chaos of their dichotomous lives into their visceral latest work, Johnny explains:

“In the last 18 months we have been catapulted from steady jobs and playing in our small town local bars to world tours at a million miles an hour. The life we’d grown accustomed to is constantly thrown behind us until it disappears into the distance in our rear view mirror.
Johnny (Pet Needs)

Johnny – Pet Needs (PHOTO CREDIT KAYLEIGH NICKSON)

We thunder forward, show by show, adventure by adventure, until [normal life] returns as a speck on the horizon like an oasis in the desert. Then suddenly we’re home again. I sit content on the sofa with a beer, my wife and our new little puppy wondering what the hell just happened for the last three months.”
Johnny (Pet Needs)

SEPERATION ANXIETY

The album announcement follows the release of lead single “Separation Anxiety”, a blazing, punk-bristled offering that unfolds as a warped interpretation of the traditional love song. With breakneck instrumentals and runaway riffs embellishing vocals spun with offbeat declarations of an undying devotion, it captures PET NEEDS’ fun-focused and frenetic approach to music-making, but also their knack for injecting life’s deeper deliberations into the mix.

Separation Anxiety” is an unconventional, subverted love song about my wife Lorna. We have been together almost 15 years and had never spent more than two weeks apart until last year. I know Lorna would absolutely cringe at anything too over-sincere, so shouting that I love her more than anyone else does is more her style!”
Johnny on Separation Anxiety

Like that unexpected snapshot for sale at the end of a theme-park ride, ‘Intermittent Fast Living’ is a vivid portrait of a band riding high on the rollercoaster that is the rock’n’roll life, and stopping for just a split-second to capture the moment. A rush of adrenaline and a tornado of emotion, it will be released on 16th February 2024 (via Xtra Mile Recordings).