Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers

• Pretty Good for a Girl Band [Domestic La La EP, 2022] B+
• I Love You [Domestic La La, 2023] A-

Consumer Guide Reviews:

Pretty Good for a Girl Band [Domestic La La EP, 2022]
These four nth-generation Canberra punks aren't just pissed anymore. They're itching to get out of there as dirty cups pile up next to the sink and the glare of passing brights lays waste to sleep in your freeway-adjacent bedroom. The highlight-cum-lowlight of their EP is "Girl Sports," where some jerk mansplains: "It's pretty complicated you wouldn't understand." But they admit it--they're feeling "naggy," "sorry," "lonely," "mad," "stubborn," and for that matter "bull dragon." The girl-band life can be that way. B+

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-