Jemina Pearl remembers how to write good songs.

Not that I want this to become a music blog, but I feel I must attempt to draw your attention to Jemina Pearl, formerly of Be Your Own Pet, and her new project. I am pretty blown away.

The songs available here are slyly crafted, lovingly produced pop jems with a lot of heart. They are the polar opposite of BYOP's disastrous follow up album, Get Awkward, a record that was suffering from the worst kind of identity crisis: one where the band appears to be either unaware of, or even worse, apathetic to their own lack of inspiration. It was a record written forcibly and in isolation, and it showed. It was like a band trying, and failing miserably to immitate itself.

These songs maintain Jemina's distinctive snarl, but it sounds here like she's grown up enough to let it be cute instead of trying desperately to cling to the immaturity it so reveled in on BYOP's first album. If the whole record is as solid as the three tracks represented on her page, I can honestly imagine it being even better than her old band's early output. Not something I was expecting, to say the least.

Experiences like this almost make it worthwhile to suffer the disappointment of a dud like Get Awkward.