After 15 years away, it’s so lovely to have Be Your Own Pet back. What’s more, album #3 is an unexpectedly excellent return. Incredible to think that the last time they made this List was with their debut, all the way back in 2006 (coincidentally, also placing at #20 that year). Mommy is full of the same charismatic, inventive punk that Be Your Own Pet were masters of in the late 2000s. It’s as vibrant and vitriolic as ever, but alongside the familiar swings at the patriarchy and corporate greed are new targets such as middle-aged responsibility (‘Goodtime!’) and rose-tinted nostalgia (‘Teenage Heaven’). Be Your Own Pet are not pretending the last 15 years didn’t happen, but they’re also careful not slip into comfortability. Expertly produced and musically tight (see the album’s best track, the mid-tempo ‘Rubberist’, which is wound like a spring and deliberately never quite unfurls), Mommy is a fine comeback.