After reuniting in March as Be Your Own Pet for their first new song since 2008, Jemina Pearl Abegg, Jonas Stein, Nathan Vasquez and John Eatherly have officially cemented their return with plans for a new full-length album titled Mommy and a fall North American tour.
The band's third studio album — billed as "the bitch in charge, the one in control" by Pearl, who explained, "It's a reclamation of myself" — arrives August 25 through Jack White's Third Man Records.
"For better or worse, we all were slapped in the face that it wasn't as easy on our own," Stein said of their hiatus in press materials. "We were all moderately successful, but nobody found that Be Your Own Pet chemistry."
Mommy was previewed earlier this year with "Hand Grenade." Now, the quartet have unleashed the indie-sleaze-reanimating "Worship the Whip," shared alongside a music video directed by Jordan William and shot by Ben Chappel.
"'Worship the Whip' is about the right-wing authoritarian personality," said Pearl. "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."
Watch the video for "Worship the Whip" below, where you can also find the album's tracklist and BYOP's tour schedule (with a lone Canadian date in Vancouver).
Mommy:
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
Be Your Own Pet 2023 Tour Dates:
06/03 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound
06/05 London, UK - Third Man
06/06 London, UK - The Moth Club
06/07 London, UK - The Moth Club
06/10 Madrid, Spain - Primavera Sound
09/16 Nashville, TN - Third Man Records Blue Room
10/18 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506
10/19 Washington, DC - Union Stage
10/21 Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere Hall
10/22 Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts
10/23 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom
10/24 Detroit, MI - Third Man Records
10/25 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
10/27 Milwaukee, WI - The Back Room at Colectivo
10/29 Louisville, KY - Headliners Music Hall
11/08 San Diego, CA - Soda Bar
11/09 Los Angeles, CA - Teragram Ballroom
11/11 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
11/12 Santa Cruz, CA - Moe's Alley
11/14 Sacramento, CA - Harlow's
11/16 Portland, OR - Star Theater
11/17 Seattle, WA - Neumos
11/18 Vancouver, BC - The Pearl
The band's third studio album — billed as "the bitch in charge, the one in control" by Pearl, who explained, "It's a reclamation of myself" — arrives August 25 through Jack White's Third Man Records.
"For better or worse, we all were slapped in the face that it wasn't as easy on our own," Stein said of their hiatus in press materials. "We were all moderately successful, but nobody found that Be Your Own Pet chemistry."
Mommy was previewed earlier this year with "Hand Grenade." Now, the quartet have unleashed the indie-sleaze-reanimating "Worship the Whip," shared alongside a music video directed by Jordan William and shot by Ben Chappel.
"'Worship the Whip' is about the right-wing authoritarian personality," said Pearl. "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."
Watch the video for "Worship the Whip" below, where you can also find the album's tracklist and BYOP's tour schedule (with a lone Canadian date in Vancouver).
Mommy:
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
Be Your Own Pet 2023 Tour Dates:
06/03 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound
06/05 London, UK - Third Man
06/06 London, UK - The Moth Club
06/07 London, UK - The Moth Club
06/10 Madrid, Spain - Primavera Sound
09/16 Nashville, TN - Third Man Records Blue Room
10/18 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506
10/19 Washington, DC - Union Stage
10/21 Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere Hall
10/22 Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts
10/23 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom
10/24 Detroit, MI - Third Man Records
10/25 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
10/27 Milwaukee, WI - The Back Room at Colectivo
10/29 Louisville, KY - Headliners Music Hall
11/08 San Diego, CA - Soda Bar
11/09 Los Angeles, CA - Teragram Ballroom
11/11 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
11/12 Santa Cruz, CA - Moe's Alley
11/14 Sacramento, CA - Harlow's
11/16 Portland, OR - Star Theater
11/17 Seattle, WA - Neumos
11/18 Vancouver, BC - The Pearl
