PET NEEDS release their new single ‘Overcompensating’, complete with video that you can watch below. This is their latest cut from debut album ‘Fractured Party Music’, released in March (buy the album on vinyl, CD and download here).

PET NEEDS joins Xtra Mile Recordings’ tour series of one-day festival shows dubbed ‘The Gathering’ after headliner Frank Turner’s new single. Dates are below.

‘Overcompensating’ finds frontman Johnny Marriott exasperating about the contrived expectations of happiness in the modern age.

“The whole tune was built around the line "we'll laugh about this one day (separately and at the expense of each other)"” says Johnny. “It then grew into a story about a desperate attempt to prove to people that life is brilliant when in reality we all have rough days and we're all vulnerable at times. To any old friends who think they may have influenced this song - don't worry! It's almost definitely purely fictitious.”

Delivered at 100mph and packing a moshpit-primed punch guaranteed to leave you dazed, it’s a track described by the band as “the ultimate Fractured Party song”. Catchy, euphoric, heavy and disconcerting, “Overcompensating” is just the latest in a string of head-turning singles in 2021 including the BBC6 Music-championed ‘Tracey Emin’s Bed’ and ‘Toothpaste’.

Working with Frank Turner in the studio to capture their explosive live sound to record for their debut album, PET NEEDS are now set to support the folk/punk artists on stage this summer as they join the line-up of ‘The Gathering’ outdoor shows. Performing ‘Overcompensating’ and more from ‘Fractured Party Music’ for the first time since its release, catch PET NEEDS letting off steam and in their element at the following dates and venues.

PET NEEDS @ ‘THE GATHERING’ - Tickets for all shows here

JUNE 2021

19 Bideford @ The Big Sheep
26 Frome @ Cheese & Grain
27 Frome @ Cheese & Grain

JULY 2021

08 Liverpool @ Top Rope Brewery - competition winners only
17 Gloucester @ Llanthony Secunda Priory
18 Gloucester @ Llanthony Secunda Priory

AUGUST 2021

21 Manchester @ Urmston Sports Club (full band show)

SEPTEMBER 2021

3 Hull @ Zebedees Yard