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


it takes a lot
to get away from you
and there were times
too many times
for us to scoot
screw

hush, don't blush

slow is smooth
and smooth is fast enough
there is always time
too many times for us to
lose

hush, don't

hush
don't blush
hush hush
don't blush


released March 11, 2025
music and lyrics by jonny campolo, nick campolo and chase ceglie

recorded 2021-2023 at
studio windows, new york
figure 8, new york
chaseland, rhode island

produced by pets
production and engineering by
jonathan schenke, nick campolo and chase ceglie
mixed by jake aron
mix asst. jasper t. dog

mastering by paul gold
figure 8 engineering asst. varun jhunjhunwalla

video directed by tony oursler
photo by josie keefe
c & p pets 2025