Ears Wide Open: Brooklyn Pets

Kevin Bronson on November 17th, 2014

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Singer-guitarist James Poulos and drummer Mark Reback constitute one-half of the glam-punk-indie-rock quartet Black Hi-Lighter, who have released two full-length albums since the spring of 2013. In an audacious display of prolificacy, Poulos and Reback have detoured to form Brooklyn Pets, the latest L.A. band to be named for a New York City borough. Brooklyn Pets’ debut EP “Mega Idiot,” recorded in San Francisco this summer with Andy Freeman, came out last week, and they’re calling it “spacegaze,” which is as good a label as any, we suppose, for the EP’s 19 minutes of 1990s-style guitar euphoria. The title track – “a song about a lapsed Christian suburban pill-popping cougar in love with Edward Snowden,” Poulos says on Twitter – is a bit like David Johansen fronting Hum, and the video’s a hoot as well. More guitars, more guitars, more guitars.

||| Stream: “Electric Paws” and “Mega Idiot”