Ugly Cherries

Ugly Cherries is the debut full-length album by 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]

Ugly Cherries
Studio album by
PWR BTTM
ReleasedSeptember 18, 2015
Genre
Length27:46
Label
ProducerChristopher Daly
PWR BTTM chronology
Republican National Convention
(2015)		 Ugly Cherries
(2015)		 Pageant
(2017)

Background

PWR BTTM signed with Father/Daughter Records after 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
Metacritic79/100[4]
Review scores
SourceRating
Pitchfork7.5/10[5]
Rolling Stone[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]

References
  1. "PWR BTTM - Ugly Cherries". Father/Daughter Records. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
  2. Coughlan, Jamie (2015-08-19). "PWR BTTM Interview: "As queer people you can't be the protagonist"". Overblown. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  3. Lindsay, Benjamin (2015-09-18). "On Top With PWR BTTM". Out. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  4. "Ugly Cherries by Pwr Bttm". Metacritic. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  5. Rachel, T. Cole. "PWR BTTM: Ugly Cherries". Pitchfork. Pitchfork. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  6. Exposito, Suzy. "PWR BTTM: Ugly Cherries". Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  7. "Reviews for Ugly Cherries by Pwr Bttm". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved June 28, 2020.
  8. "Ugly Cherries". pwrbttm.bandcamp.com. PWR BTTM. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
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