Consumer Guide Album

Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers: I Love You [Domestic La La, 2023]
Bratty name or no bratty name, punk affect or no punk affect, this Canberra femme foursome think like recognizable adults. Having debuted with an EP featuring songs about bedrooms by the thruway and roommates leaving dishes in the sink, ponder briefly what kind of audacity it takes to not only write a song baldly titled "I Love You" but name your first true album after it. Not that everything's roses and cream, not with lyrics like "I always want what I can't have until I get it," "I think I'll stay at mine tonight," and--most alarming, I say--"you hold me too tight." But love is the goal nonetheless, and they're not so bratty they don't try and figure out how to make it work. A-