Now here’s a release without enough coverage. Cave-in vocalist/guitarist Stephen Brodsky’s new project alongside two guys named Johnny Coolbreeze and JR. Pet Genius is generally labeled as stoner rock and with influences like Pabst Blue Ribbon, Marijuana and Uncontrollable Libidos, you’re sure to make some kind of stoner rock. However this is not your traditional riff oriented and repetitive stoner rock as say Om or Sleep. Most of the songs are short bursts of creativite pop carefully presented in rock attitude. There’s surely some crunchy riffage as heard on “Walls of Etiquette” but most of the album is in tune with the bizarrely creative and catchy “Erase the Speed of Time”. The downside? It lasts a mere 30 minutes, which is also what makes it more addictive. Been listening to Pet Genius every day for a week straight, which is something I rarely do these days. USA’s answer to Wales’ Future of the Left.

Pet Genius - Doomsday

Pet Genius - Walls of Etiquette
Pet Genius - Erase the speed of time