Pet Project’s album makes you “question marriage”
by Laura Garber It’s hard to pin down the modern soundtrack of the South Bay; a mix of smacked volleyballs, crashing whitewash and the electric whir of teenagers weaving by on e-bikes. But Pet Project, a group formed from South Bay staples Feed the Kitty and Pet the Dog, has managed to bottle that distinct beach cities sound in their recently released second album, “Same Old World, Different Me.” SoCal Neo-retro would sound like a woman who “slept in her Corvette alone last night down by the beach,” said bassist Jed Mottley, quoting a lyric from their 2024 debut album, “Sidewalk to Nowhere.” It’s not hard to picture women swaying to a summer afternoon set at the Lighthouse Cafe in Hermosa Beach or H.T. Grill in Redondo—drawn to the music as if their memories of, or longing for such nights, are woven into the lyrics. In 2000, Mottley relocated to Los Angeles from Arizona to advance Feed the Kitty. Original band members married or became firemen, leading Mottley to connect with Jack Maher Jr., who joined FTK as vocalist and guitarist. Mottley remembers calling Maher in the spring of 2008, “Do you want to play every night? Because I don’t want to get a job, do you?” The duo headed…
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