Following the release of their Top 20 album ‘Intermittent Fast Living’ in February 2024, PET NEEDS have recorded an acoustic album to be released on 24th January 2025. ‘Kind Of Acoustic’ will be available on CD, vinyl and digital – the 12-track album features 4 tracks from each of their previous three albums recorded acoustically. It showcases the band’s adept musical prowess that reimagines these previously full-on punk songs into acoustic vignettes whilst still retaining their riotous energy. The first single is ‘The Burning Building’ (from ‘Intermittent Fast Living’) which is released digitally on 31st October as well as on an exclusive flexi disc on 8th November – backed with the electric version of the same song. PET NEEDS are a punk fuelled melodic rock fourpiece from Colchester who have toured the world in the short few years they’ve been with Xtra Mile. Their past three albums have helped catapult the band to the rising stars they are today.

They’ve toured Europe with Laura Jane Grace, Art Brut, Frank Turner, Flogging Molly and Skinny Lister; joined Frank Turner on the 50 States in 50 Days USA tour in 2022, supported Bouncing Souls, The Hives. The Lottery Winners and completed their own UK headline tours.
To support the album release the band will head out on a UK Acoustic headline tour end of January 2025.

We chose our favourite tunes from our last three albums and spent four days playing them live in a deconsecrated church in the tiny Welsh town of Borth. We wanted to create something warm, raw and organic. Something acoustic. Something that felt like the most true take as opposed to the most perfect. Presenting the songs in this way has given them space to breathe. We’ve never recorded like this before. Mike West was amazing at the helm, guiding us through playing by feeling and having a conversation with our instruments as opposed to just hammering the tunes out. This album isn’t just the singles, either. We’ve chosen what we thought would be best presented as acoustic songs, and together have created something we’re really proud of. The Burning Building is one of my favourites on Intermittent Fast Living. It’s a bonkers punk tune about a broken industry. We were invited to play the Burning Building many times when we were younger. Pay to plays, exposure shows… The cash must be going somewhere, because it’s definitely not in the pockets of new bands just starting out! We set ourselves the challenge of making the acoustic version as raucous as possible and had loads of fun with it!