Perhaps the best part of working in a record store was listening to music all day, talking music all day, and sometimes turning people onto bands worth their time and money. England’s Pete & The Pirates is definitely one of those bands I would have been enormously excited to share with anyone crossing the threshold of my workplace. Vocalist Tommy Sanders’ voice and guitarists David Thorpe and Peter Hefferan may nod to Bends-Era Radiohead, but the tunes also harken back to the melancholic genius of New Zealand’s Verlaines. Pete & The Pirates’ debut album Little Death is out now and available. I could write paragraph after paragraph extolling the virtues of this band’s art, and yet all one really needs to do is listen.
Pete & The Pirates - Not A Friend
