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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
Released	September 18, 2015
Genre	Queercore indie rock garage rock
Length	27:46
Label	Miscreant Records Father/Daughter Records
Producer	Christopher 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
Source	Rating
Metacritic	79/100[4]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Pitchfork	7.5/10[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

Personnel

Adapted from Bandcamp.[8]

• Liv Bruce – drums, vocals, guitar
• Ben Hopkins – guitar, vocals, drums
• Christopher Daly – engineer, producer
• Jamal Ruhe – mastering

References

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