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PREMIERE: Personal Best - “The Mission / If You Meet Someone In Love (Wish Them Well)”

This power-pop trio have struck the perfect balance of righteous riffs and melodic hooks, harking back to the glory days of 90s college rock.
Emma Garland
London, GB

Named after the Team Dresch album of the same title, Bristol power-pop trio Personal Best maintain a perfect balance of righteous riffs and melodic hooks that hark back to the glory days of 90s college rock. We’re super excited to premiere the first two tracks from their forthcoming debut album, Arnos Vale.

Not only does “The Mission / If You Meet Someone In Love (Wish Them Well)” feature the best use of the run-on track function since The Ergs’ Dorkrockcorkrod, they’re exactly the kind of lovesick anthems that recall of all the parts of your youth that never lost their poignancy: crushing on the wrong person, writing bad poetry about it, getting tanked on your parent's booze and making out with someone from another school etc. According to the band, Arnos Vale “focuses on the exhilaration and anxiety of being in love, realizing what you have but being scared to lose it.”

Basically, I can’t wait for summer to kick in so I can stick this on at a house party and hug my friends so vigorously that I spill Bud down the backs of their t-shirts.

Arnos Vale will be released on March 30 via Specialist Subject Records