Petey USA - The Yips (July 11, 2025) • Page 7

You can Goon over here, very good Los Angeles band

Not listened to this one yet.

 

Yep, this @Zilla! Sunny, but not saccharine, indie pop-rock. Great, mostly chill, summer afternoon music.

 

Gonna have to goon it!

 

Ain’t no tune like a goon tune

 

GOON? More like GO ON and talk about them in another thread. This is Petey's thread, baby.

 

Are you telling me that I have the freedom to fuck off?

 

Petey GoonSA

 

Hadn't listened to him before today, but this is pretty good. Some really great lyrics and an interesting voice that works well with the Chris Walla production.

 

If you haven’t heard don’t tell the boys listen now

 

Loving this

 

I think The Yips (the song) would have actually made a pretty good closer.

 

Beautiful

 

First time I heard Spirit Animal this morning I thought “what the fuck is this?” and now I am thinking Spirit Animal absolutely FUCKS

 

Holy hell ‘This Bucket of Water’ hits so hard the second time through.

 

I had that same journey with Spirit Animal in the span of my first listen to it lolol

 

Same lol wasn’t feeling it the first minute or so and was sold by the end

 

Loving this. Really consistent all the way through. The ending of Bucket of Water is sooo good.

 

Spirit Animal is the only song I’m still not thrilled on. Overall it’s great and keeps growing on me!

 

This is pretty good. I think Lean Into Life and Other Stuff are a good bit better than USA (which is great but didn’t hit me as hard), and this sounds a lot more like a bigger budget version of those than a follow up to USA. That was a nice surprise having only heard Model Train Town and Milkman before this morning.

If I got qualms on first listen it’s just pretty inconsistent. Huge huge fan of Ask Someone Else, Model Train Town, and Breathing the Same Air. But Milkman, Spirit Animal, Bucket of Water….really iffy stretch. I also think in general some of his more quirky yelling stuff has always straddled the cathartic/dumb line, and while it works incredibly well on something like Pitch a Fit I’m on the fence if it’s as effective here.

Mixed on how synth heavy it is - some really beautiful background stuff but some a little on the nose preset sounding stuff too. I love how synth heavy LIL is, there might be a couple songs on here where it’s diminishing returns.

TLDR The best stuff on this is great, definitely a handful of songs at the level I was hoping for, but it’s a mild letdown as a whole.

 

Milkman has some dumb lyrics but is catchy and fun. First part of spirit animal is stinky but I like the end.

 

Kind of how I feel about all his releases. Half really great stuff, a lot of stuff that does nothing for me

 

I’m not huge on the opening synth part of Milkman but love the rest of the song

 

Lean into life has his best songs but also I skip like a third of that album. USA is great all the way through.

 

I am sorry but did I read Bucket of Water slander?

 

Definitely liking this a bit more today.