The Prettiots

NYC's The Prettiots are Kay Kasparhauser and Lulu Prat. While they've been playing shows and writing songs together for over a year – all the while earning press fans like Bust, Nylon, Rookie, Noisey, and the New York Times – their first official release, a 7" single for "Suicide Hotline," was released this June via label home Rough Trade Records. NPR Music's review of that track goes far to characterize The Prettiot's sensibility: "'Suicide Hotline', like many Prettiots songs, couches stunning barbs of insight between sweet, fun harmonies and playful ukulele strums."

As Kasparhauser explained in a Rookie Magazine interview earlier this year, "My lyrics are completely honest...they're 100% true to my thoughts at any given moment. I like to talk about Werner Herzog and sex." In that same interview, she admitted to musical influences as wide- ranging as Eyehategod, Lightning Bolt, and ABBA; the latter might be a little easier to glean from the music of The Prettiots, though they've been known to cover The Misfits and System Of A Down live.