Ears Wide Open: Beck Pete

Kevin Bronson on October 28th, 2019

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Three or so years ago, Rebecca Peters quit her job at an advertising agency, cut her hair short, moved to Los Angeles and embarked on the path to becoming Beck Pete, the name under which she has released a handful of singles and, last week, the EP “Muse.”

Working with producers Jon Joseph and Liminal (aka Tom Crouch), she fashions a soulful indie-pop sound that tilts from minimal and tender to robust and bold in the snap of a finger, or the snap of a heartstring. Like a lot of music of its kind, Pete’s songs are about falling in and out of love, all those thrills and spills that, eventually, make us stronger. If her big vocals don’t tip you off, the singer-songwriter confesses that she’s “thankful to myself for loving hard. I’m thankful to myself for learning from it all. I’m thankful for the music that came.”

||| Stream: “Same Song”