“The best thing about living in New York is that if you want like, dried coconut and iced coffee and raisin bran at 4:00 am you don’t have to go farther than a block to get it.”

Hurray on girl bands! The Prettiots are a New York three-piece girl band made up of Kay Goldberg, Rachel Trachtenburg and Lulu Prat, arriving with glittering, indie art-pop. Their sound is somehow uncoerced and fresh and reminds us about the days hanging out with your girlfriends, painting the town red. Living for the moment with ideas leaping in our minds. About parties, about love, just anything really.
We talked to The Prettiots about their upcoming album, their visions, and we added some superb images of them shot by the awesome photographer Colin Dodgson. 

What does music mean to you?

It can be the simplest and most complex thing in the world and thats why it is beautiful and vital.

“The Prettiots” are…? And how did you get together as a band?

A Girl Band. It started as a misguided solo project that was rescued by the the epic talents of Rachel and Lulu, we are star crossed.

I read of your plans on releasing an album. Can you already tell us about it? And how do you create your songs together?

The album is cute and fun and cool and sweet and mean and silly and smart and dumb and honest. The lyrics to our songs are very honest and they come out of things that we think of everyday. The music grows out of that and usually starts with a ukulele riff.

An artist is always a dreamer, what are your visions?

I guess I have a lot of them– primarily I want to be able to make music and art that I love, but I also want to be an astronaut and a cowboy and a doctor and also be able to shrink anything down to pocket size and also eat a hundred cupcakes everyday forever.

If you have to compare your music to a famous artwork, what would it be?

I went to art school so you would think this question would be the easiest but it was definitely the hardest. I guess I would say any work by Aya Takano, weird and cute and sweet and dark.

Your music is also influenced by New York. What´s the best thing on living there. And where can we find you on a Friday night?

The best thing about living in New York is that if you want like, dried coconut and iced coffee and raisin bran at 4:00 am you don’t have to go farther than a block to get it.  Also the people and places and things. And libraries. And The Frick.

Where do you see “The Prettiots” in the future?

Hmmm ..performing “Dream Boy” at the future version of The Superbowl which takes place in a floating stadium that is really a hologram with robot back up singers.

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