Pet Needs have shared “Sleep When I’m Dead,” the UK band’s latest single is off their forthcoming album Intermittent Fast Living via Xtra Mile Recordings. Booking themselves in at Vada Studios with producer and sound engineer George Perks (Mogwai, Skindred), the band hunkered down at the residential studio and began recording.

“We wanted to subvert the tired rock n roll ‘I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead!’ mentality and celebrate both the million-mile-an-hour touring lifestyle and, well, being in our own beds, too! When you’re on the road for months, you pine for home. When you’re at home, you’re always thinking ahead to the next tour. To us, this is the ultimate ‘Intermittent Fast Living’ song: sing-along, high energy, filterless reality. Sex, drugs, booze, snooze. Perfect!”

Founded by brothers Johnny (vocals) and George (guitar) and later joined by Jack (drums) and Ryan (bass) only a matter of years ago, Pet needs’ has released their debut, Fractured Party Music, in 2021. From getting signed to selling out shows, embarking on extensive global tours with the likes of Frank Turner, The Hives, The Lottery Winners, Skinny Lister, and a run on Flogging Molly’s Salty Dog Cruise, demand for these four lads from Essex has been on a trajectory with the stratosphere.

But being strapped-in to the big dipper that is living the rock’n’roll lifestyle most kids can only dream of, while trying to balance a steady family life at home, is not without its challenges. And by perpetually riding around what frontman Johnny describes as “a dream-like tornado,” they have found themselves jolting between a life in the fast lane and the security and stillness of being with those they love. Channeling the chaos of their dichotomous lives into their visceral latest work, Johnny explains:

“In the last 18 months we have been catapulted from steady jobs and playing in our small town local bars to world tours at a million miles an hour. The life we’d grown accustomed to is constantly thrown behind us until it disappears into the distance in our rearview mirror. We thunder forward, show by show, adventure by adventure, until [normal life] returns as a speck on the horizon like an oasis in the desert. Then suddenly we’re home again. I sit content on the sofa with a beer, my wife and our new little puppy wondering what the hell just happened for the last three months.”

“All these songs started life on a battered acoustic guitar in my spare room,” Johnny recalls. “I then took them to my brother and collaborator George, and together we worked them up from ideas into fully-arranged, fully-fledged songs. With the band, we transform embryonic ideas into huge songs with incredible arrangements of drums, bass, guitars and more.”

pre-order Intermittent Fast Living by Pet Needs HERE