Pit Er Pat: Pyramids

Status of copy at Case Memorial Library
Hugh Elton wrote in the New Haven Advocate: "Pit Er Pat is a gloomy Chicago trio whose closest thing to a classification would be something meaninglessly arcane like 'Nu-Jazz' (which the band's MySpace page places before 'Ghettotech' and 'Happy Hardcore,' two sounds that they knowingly couldn't be further from). The band's most recent release, Pyramids, is best suited for play in limbo and bizarre, confusing dreams. It would be a good accompaniment for a modern-day murder mystery, one that involves obscure organic psychedelics of some sort. Simple, slow-driving progressions provide a seemingly endless basis for Fay Davis-Jeffers' untrained but posed voice (which sounds like a teenaged ghost singing Cat Power songs) and the ominously melancholy atmosphere it creates. The simulated eternity of her stripped-organ motifs mingles awkwardly at times with Butchey Fuego's drumming, while Rob Doran (a founding member of Alkaline Trio) lays down moody, surreptitions bass lines that connects all these strands enough for that disjointed feeling to remain mostly in check" ("LiveMusic: Sucka, Pit-er, Flanders," 5/3/07).