Ugly Cherries
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| Ugly Cherries | ||||
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| Released | September 18, 2015 | |||
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| Length | 27:46 | |||
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| Producer | Christopher Daly | |||
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Ugly Cherries is the first full-length album by the New York City queer punk duo Pwr Bttm. According to the album's record label, Father/Daughter Records, the album is about "...the duo's experiences with queerness, gender, and adulthood over the course of a year of living in upstate New York".[1] The album's title comes from Ben Hopkins' distaste for maraschino cherries and its personification for Hopkins' queerness, claiming "it sort of fell in line with my self loathing on the subject".[2]
Background[edit]
Pwr Bttm signed with Father/Daughter Records after the co-founder Jessi Frick retweeted the music video for Pwr Bttm's song "Carbs". Ben Hopkins then messaged Frick over Twitter, which eventually led to a record deal.[2]
Recording and production[edit]
Ugly Cherries was recorded in Hudson, New York.[3]
Reception[edit]
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 79/100[4] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Pitchfork | 7.5/10[5] |
| Rolling Stone |    [6] |
Ugly Cherries received positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 79, based on 4 reviews.[7]
Track listing[edit]
All tracks are written by Liv Bruce and Ben Hopkins
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Short Lived Nightmare" | 1:06 |
| 2. | "Dairy Queen" | 2:31 |
| 3. | "I Wanna Boi" | 2:03 |
| 4. | "Ugly Cherries" | 2:20 |
| 5. | "Serving Goffman" | 2:03 |
| 6. | "Nu 1" | 2:45 |
| 7. | "West Texas" | 2:27 |
| 8. | "1994" | 2:55 |
| 9. | "C U Around" | 2:26 |
| 10. | "All the Boys" | 2:26 |
| 11. | "House in Virginia" | 4:51 |
Personnel[edit]
Adapted from Bandcamp.[8]
- Liv Bruce – drums, vocals, guitar
- Ben Hopkins – guitar, vocals, drums
- Christopher Daly – engineer, producer
- Jamal Ruhe – mastering
References[edit]
- ^ "PWR BTTM – Ugly Cherries". Father/Daughter Records. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
- ^ a b Coughlan, Jamie (August 19, 2015). "PWR BTTM Interview: "As queer people you can't be the protagonist"". Overblown. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
- ^ Lindsay, Benjamin (September 18, 2015). "On Top With PWR BTTM". Out. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
- ^ "Ugly Cherries by Pwr Bttm". Metacritic. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
- ^ Rachel, T. Cole. "PWR BTTM: Ugly Cherries". Pitchfork. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
- ^ Exposito, Suzy. "PWR BTTM: Ugly Cherries". Rolling Stone. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
- ^ "Reviews for Ugly Cherries by Pwr Bttm". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved June 28, 2020.
- ^ "Ugly Cherries". pwrbttm.bandcamp.com. PWR BTTM. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
