Pet Me
PET ME TURN IT LOOSE ON SELF-TITLED EP
Meet Pet Me, a fierce femme queercore power-pop outfit straight out of the rust belt – Lansing, Michigan.
Pet Me
Made up of Vikki Vera (vocals, lyrics), Allie Hunt (guitar), Quinn Endicott (bass), and Myxi (drums), Pet Me cites influences including “The Big Moon, The Wonder Years, Slothrust, and Ted Leo as well as ‘90s Britpop bands like Elastica and Suede or early punk icons like X-Ray Spex, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sex Pistols, Avengers, and Dead Kennedys.”
The genesis of Pet Me occurred in 2018, when vocalist Vikki Vera and guitarist Allie Hunt hooked up via a dating site, and lo and behold, discovered a shared passion for music. As you would expect, they began writing songs, followed by drafting a bass player, Quinn Endicott, and a drummer, Ava Rice.
The band made their initial public debut on New Year’s Eve 2018, at a house open mic, performing four songs, followed by performances at Stoopfest, along with numerous gigs at indie venues. In 2019, Pet Me changed drummers, replacing Ava, who left for personal reasons, with Myxi.
On “Hungry,” Vikki’s vocals take on wicked tonal flavors, cutting the atmosphere like a fingernail slicing through dense paper.
A short time ago, on February 8 to be precise, the band released their self-titled debut EP, recorded and mixed by Nick LaForge and mastered by Tyler Floyd of Floyd Audio.
Encompassing three-tracks, the EP commences with “Frying Pan,” opening on potently stark and raw riffs flowing into a tight rolling rhythm punctuated by skintight finessed drums, with delicious popping fills, and a fat bassline. Vikki’s voice is rich and a bit dark, like gooey toffee, sticky and tantalizingly nuanced.
“Fully Automated” rides a chugging metallic guitar, chock-full of punchy gleaming textures, as Vikki’s caustically scrumptious tones snarl out smirking timbres, investing the lyrics with riot-grrl-lite energy.
“So give me fully automated anarchy.”
“Hungry” opens on rumbling drums seguing to pyrotechnic guitar riffs fueled by a muscular bassline and Jovian percussion. Myxi hits with beaucoup force, yet delivers subtle touches, thus simultaneously providing walloping oomph and delicate flair. On “Hungry,” Vikki’s vocals take on wicked tonal flavors, cutting the atmosphere like a fingernail slicing through dense paper.
Pet Me has it going on, pushing out visceral power-pop rife with ferocity and substrata of brawny pop-punk dynamics.
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