My Best Unbeaten Brother
Pessimistic Pizza
garage rock / emo / indie rock / punk / indie / alternative
Audio Antihero
My Best Unbeaten Brother are a new South London-based trio featuring the critically lauded Ben and Adam Parker (Nosferatu D2 / Tempertwig / Superman Revenge Squad) and bassist/artist Ben Fry.
Once described as “the lost pioneers of the indie-emo scene,” the Parker brothers’ unconventional journey has been the subject of retrospective radio stories by Public Radio International and BBC 6 Music, while their past works received raves on Drowned in Sound, The Line of Best Fit, Pitchfork, NME, DIY Mag, and The Skinny.
Brought back together by this new project, the first new material from the brothers since 2013 reunites them with Audio Antihero, their longtime label, and sees them cast aside their past insecurities in search of hope and meaning whilst preserving the off-kilter musical chemistry that earned the siblings fans in Los Campesinos!, Art Brut, and Johnny Foreigner.
Their debut, the ‘Pessimistic Pizza’ mini-album was released in June 2024, and was praised by Post-Trash, The Alternative, Merry-Go-Round Magazine, Various Small Flames, Austin Town Hall, For the Rabbits, and numerous others.
Praise for 'Pessimistic Pizza':
“It’s a refreshing plea in a world obsessed with irony and curated authenticity…There is an urgency to take care of the people around us, rather than a navel-gazing angst.” – POST TRASH
“My Best Unbeaten Brother triangulates a space between the baritone-led post-punk revival of Alligator, the quirked-up indie pop of Waited Up Til It Was Light, and the math-tinged emo of Charmer. In other words, Pessimistic Pizza is an absolute must-listen.” – THE ALTERNATIVE
“Comfort is hearing life’s most disarming truths spoken with true depth and power…It’s a record that sighs heavily at the mouth of an active volcano and trots on regardless.” – MERRY-GO-ROUND MAGAZINE
“A brilliantly bleak song…musically it’s sprawling post-rock, post-everything with guitars that swing between spindling and chugging, fantastic pummelling drums: a plaintive trawl through the detritus of post-Brexit Britain…” – GOD IS IN THE TV
“Should you have doubts that there’s life in guitar music yet, here come My Best Unbeaten Brother…” – FRESH ON THE NET
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