Ugly Cherries

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

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]

Contents

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
Metacritic 79/100 [4]
Review scores
SourceRating
Pitchfork 7.5/10 [5]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [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]

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References

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