Ugly Cherries

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]

Ugly Cherries
Studio album by
Pwr Bttm
ReleasedSeptember 18, 2015
Genre
Length27:46
Label
ProducerChristopher Daly
Pwr Bttm chronology
Republican National Convention
(2015)		 Ugly Cherries
(2015)		 Pageant
(2017)

Background

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

Ugly Cherries was recorded in Hudson, New York.[3]

Reception
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic79/100[4]
Review scores
SourceRating
Pitchfork7.5/10[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

All tracks are written by Liv Bruce and Ben Hopkins

No.TitleLength
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

Adapted from Bandcamp.[8]

  • Liv Bruce – drums, vocals, guitar
  • Ben Hopkins – guitar, vocals, drums
  • Christopher Daly – engineer, producer
  • Jamal Ruhe – mastering

References
  1. "PWR BTTM – Ugly Cherries". Father/Daughter Records. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
  2. Coughlan, Jamie (August 19, 2015). "PWR BTTM Interview: "As queer people you can't be the protagonist"". Overblown. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
  3. Lindsay, Benjamin (September 18, 2015). "On Top With PWR BTTM". Out. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
  4. "Ugly Cherries by Pwr Bttm". Metacritic. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
  5. Rachel, T. Cole. "PWR BTTM: Ugly Cherries". Pitchfork. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  6. Exposito, Suzy. "PWR BTTM: Ugly Cherries". Rolling Stone. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  7. "Reviews for Ugly Cherries by Pwr Bttm". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved June 28, 2020.
  8. "Ugly Cherries". pwrbttm.bandcamp.com. PWR BTTM. Retrieved August 17, 2016.


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