Pet Symmetry - Big Symmetry

 

I am 62 and there are many of my peers who look at my interest in Emo and Pop Punk over the past three decades plus as a mid life crisis. They think I sit at home in my half pants wearing my cap backwards. What they don't realise is that as the better of these bands have matured, they are now excellent at offering up music that is not a million miles away from the stuff that they like.

Pet Symmetry are a living breathing example of this. So many look at those two genres and run for the hills. Just as Modern Prog is not all about 8 minute drum solos and weird time signatures. Psychn Pop is not about backward recording and hippie tableaus. Music listeners should open their minds as much as their ears. 

I Don't Hear A Single started as a reaction to these attitudes, those who said all new music is crap and I suppose we've proved them wrong. It has been four long years since the band's third album, Future Suits, and it has been worth the wait. Big Symmetry is such a wonderfully positive album.

The Chicago Trio are still locked in instrumentally, almost a Power Trio, yet whilst this album still has hints of Emo, the sound is much nearer to the new breed of Power Pop and it takes it to a whole new level. Songs are not about lost love, more about the world now, but providing hope.

Offering up 12 songs that with titles that all begin with Big tells you about the aims of the album. Big Symmetry don't come up for air, but the songs are melodic, never in your face, all perfectly formed, they get near to Indie Rock without ever trying to blow the doors off.

Songs are beautifully arranged, all big choruses and big riffs. I've deliberately not wrote about individual songs, because this is an album to be listened to from start to finish. However, I have embedded my favourite three to lead you there. Big Symmetry is the sound of three friends, happy with their bond and their lives. We should get more of this sort of vibe.

You can listen to and buy the album here. It is available on Vinyl and as a download.

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