https://thepulp.org/qa-with-montana-punk-rocker-jeff-ament/

It’s interesting to listen to you talk about your love for some of these places after listening to some P.E.S.T songs. “Save the Cowboy” has the line “I love you Big Sandy, but you’re bringing me down.” And off the new EP, “Flathead Monster,” has some stuff that can be construed as critical. (The song, named for a mythical Loch Ness Monster-esque creature in Flathead Lake, references Prussian Blue, a neo-Nazi family band with roots in Kalispell.) As cool as it is that these small towns are getting skateparks and what not, it seems like the music also talks about the alienation and paranoia in these places. 

The great thing about P.E.S.T. is sitting around with Dave [Parsons] and Charlie [Beaton] and talking about, you know, all these towns sort of have either like a like a mascot, a story, a theme, and we’re sort of taking those themes and just sort of looking at it from the other side and poking at it a little bit. And also getting out the problems we had growing up when people are yelling, calling you names and whatever.