Nothing to do with Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Lydia Lunch’s pioneering 1970s no wave band, Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers are a young Australian four-piece rapidly evolving from their pop-punk roots. Formed in Canberra in 2015 by then 15-year-old schoolfriends Anna Ryan (guitar and vocals), Scarlett McKahey (guitar), Jaida Stephenson (bass) and Neve van Boxsel (drums), their first releases were rich of bubblegum chorus and melodically astute, with unignorable gender politics (last year’s EP was titled Pretty Good for a Girl Band).
However, their debut full-length album, I Love You, finds them broadening their palette. As McKahey explains: “We’d never been able to have a softer, more vulnerable side to any of our songs. They’d all been singles.”
