Pet Needs Celebrate “Intermittent Fast Living” On New Album

Intermittent Fast Living, the third studio release from Pet Needs in as many years, is out today via Xtra Mile Recordings, the album is inspired by the relentless, breathless, stop-start lifestyle the band have found themselves living in recent times. Founded with humble bedroom-band beginnings by brothers Johnny & George Marriott and later joined by Jack and Ryan only a matter of years ago, Pet Needs‘ career has been sky-rocketing ever since the release of their acclaimed debut, Fractured Party Music, in 2021. From getting signed to sold out shows, rave reviews to rabid fans, and embarking on extensive global tours with the likes of Frank Turner, The Hives, The Lottery Winners, Skinny Lister; demand for these four lads from Essex has been on a trajectory with the stratosphere. 

“In the last 18 months we have been catapulted from steady jobs and playing in our small town local bars to world tours at a million miles an hour. The life we’d grown accustomed to is constantly thrown behind us until it disappears into the distance in our rear view mirror. We thunder forward, show by show, adventure by adventure, until [normal life] returns as a speck on the horizon like an oasis in the desert. Then suddenly we’re home again. I sit content on the sofa with a beer, my wife and our new little puppy wondering what the hell just happened for the last three months.” (Johnny Marriott)

From bare bones scratched out in the sanctity of their spare bedroom, into the full-bodied and frenzied final cuts befitting of their third body of work, the songs of Intermittent Fast Living quickly began to take shape. Booking themselves in at Vada Studios with producer and sound engineer George Perks, Pet Needs hunkered down at the residential studio and began “the most creative fortnight of [their] lives”. Like that unexpected snapshot for sale at the end of a theme-park ride, Intermittent Fast Living is a vivid portrait of a band riding high on the rollercoaster that is the rock ‘n roll life, and stopping for just a split-second to capture the moment.

“All these songs started life on a battered acoustic guitar in my spare room. I then took them to my brother and collaborator George, and together we worked them up from ideas into fully-arranged, fully-fledged songs. With the band we transform embryonic ideas into huge songs with incredible arrangements of drums, bass, guitars and more.” (Johnny Marriott)

Pet Needs will be embarking on an extensive schedule of live fixtures throughout the first half of 2024, including UK & European dates, plus a limited run of intimate instore gigs.