pets

Allow me to introduce you to pets and their debut single “hush hush." I’ll hold the studio door open for you to hear: at first just a voice in the darkness, raw but ready. Turning up the dimmer switch reveals The Blue Nile, Talk Talk and Harmonia CDs stacked in the corner. It’s where piano and saxophone lay comfortably side by side with modular synths and constructed beats; the organic sounds carefully placed in a clocked world. pets feel at home in our chopped and screwed landscape: a warmth pours out of them and their music. It feels like I’m sinking down in the tub, after exercising "running man” and “ballerina” on my rebounder. It gives me space to think of my old room and all the things I would or wouldn’t do, in a luxurious loop. pets say “music is people” and the bridge they’re building between their art and music worlds is thrillingly represented here with their first video, directed by Tony Oursler. Maybe you remember his studio from David Bowie’s “Where Are We Now?” It’s haunted me ever since, and peering in again— into this world within world— is all I can hope for.
– Eleanor Friedberger