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Live Review: Indoor Pets

Artist: Indoor Pets

Support Act: Gender Roles

Venue: The Flapper, Birmingham, UK

Date: 15th April 2019

Rating: 8.0/10

A tiny venue, mass singalongs, dancing front rows and a band on stage commanding every square inch; you’d think we’re talking about an established act running through a series of intimate dates before zipping off to slay arenas; not Indoor Pets, a group who’ve headed out on a headline tour for their sumptuous debut LP ‘Be Content’. Such is the confidence on stage and the wide spread adulation, WWPSM has to keep reminding themselves that these boys are only just starting out, albeit with four or so years under the belts, perfecting their live show and honing their own special brand of power-pop flecked rock.

Before Indoor Pets work The Flapper like putty in their hands, Brighton’s Gender Roles have the task of warming up the Brummie crowd. The three piece don’t muck about when it comes to unleashing a delightfully grunge racket that’s rough ‘n’ ready but tinged with a pop sensibility. With their unnamed debut album in the bag, the trio rattle through a host of new tunes as well as belting out choice nuggets from their ‘Lazer Rush’ EP, that sees ‘About Her’ drawing out a singalong from a handful of devotees down the front. ‘Gills’ is greeted like an old friend while ‘Plastic’s caustic sweetness brings the seasider’s sterling support slot to a close. Suffice to say, Gender Roles’ first album can’t drop soon enough.

Apparently, singer/vocalist Jamie Glass has ‘big hands’ according to Indoor Pets’ faithful following. (personally, he doesn’t, they’re average sized.) Not ones to back down from a bit of whimsy, the Kent band’s entrance music is a blurred mix of Stormzy, The Beatles and various other acts, but where applicable, Glass’ deadpan voice blurts: hands….(you might need to have been there but trust us, it was funny!). Firing into ‘Cutie Pie, I’m Bloated’, Indoor Pets charge into their 15-song set list with frantic gusto. The energy levels are soon mirrored onstage with the jostling front rows, as the set’s high-octane opener instigates the first of many singalongs. Tonight’s set is mostly made up from ‘Be Content’ but the oldies like ‘Electrify’ and ‘All My Friends’ make an appearance early on and with the latter in-particular, these non-album tracks go down a treat. As you may have guessed, with an arsenal of songs with more hooks than a fisherman’s tackle box, when the band fire into fan favourites ‘Teriyaki’, ‘Being Strange’ and the effervescent ‘Pro Procrastinator’ these gems are met with hearty singalongs. The same can be said for the rampant ‘Mean Heart’ and ‘Barbiturates’. When the huge sounding, catchier than the common cold, rock songs are dialed back for a moment, ‘The Mapping of Dandruff’ captures Indoor Pets’ tender, sentimental side; a different kind of anthemics from the rest of the set but something wonderful happens when crowd and Glass combine to sing the song’s bruised hookline “I’m so human it hurts”.

They’ve got the tunes and they’ve got the live presence, with Glass throwing multiple, jerky shapes, whilst clambering into the front rows when not tethered to his guitar. Fellow guitarist James Simpson has the same berserker approach to his craft while bass player Ollie Nunn is the living embodiment of Cousin IT, a wall of hair bumbling across the stage. James’ brother Rob remains steadfast at the back of the stage, keeping things in check via his drum kit. What’s charming about Indoor Pets and particularly Glass, is the frontman appears completely lost in the moment when him and the band are powering through their set but between songs, he appears surprised and a little awkward when being faced by the huge wave of adulation being thrown his way. Better get used to that boys, there’s plenty more where that came from!

Indoor Pets are primed and ready for places double the size of The Flapper, catch them while you can in an intimate venue near you!

Photography by Naomi Abbs-Williams

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Kent four piece Get Inuit was one of our favorite rising bands a few years ago, hooking us thoroughly with their witty songs (oft accompanied by clever lyricism and sly song titles) and their raucous indie rock sounds. The last time we featured Get Inuit was when they released their power pop styled rocker, Barbiturates, circa two years ago. As it turns out, at some point between then and now, Get Inuit has renamed themselves as Indoor Pets, and they’ve been trekking their way towards their very first full length. This week, the band returns with a new song named The Mapping Of Dandruff, displaying a more emotional and melancholic, fleecy and incandescent tone that more than re-captures our hearts. It’s a lustrous swirling, guitar pilose song that veers towards aureate dream pop, and even atmospheric shoegaze. Debut album Be Content, out tomorrow on Wichita Recordings. The last few months have been a whirlwind for Indoor Pets, despite the fact that we somehow missed out on them for awhile in its lush whorling moments. They took the US by storm for the very first time with packed-room performances, and they’ve shared prior album tracks like Hi, Being Strange, and Pro Procrastinator to widespread acclaim from the likes of The New York Times, Radio 1, BrooklynVegan, Paste Magazine, and more. Indoor Pets’ debut album Be Content, which we reckon is more than contenting, can be pre-ordered, here.