Tom Gallo is the host of Look At My Records! on Radio Free Brooklyn.
Emerging out of a tiny dorm room at Syracuse University, Petite League started as many music projects do in the new millennium. Two friends with a passion for music, Lorenzo Gillis Cook and Henry Schoonmaker, began collaborating and creating lo-fi, no-frills, catchy pop songs and with the help of modern mediums like Soundcloud, they quickly found and maintained a highly receptive audience. Within three years, the band was nothing short of prolific, releasing three critically acclaimed albums, “Slugger” in 2015, “No Hitter” in 2016, and “Rips One Into The Night” in 2017. Despite such a massive output in such a short time frame, you’d be hard-pressed to find a song on any of these records that you couldn’t enjoy.
After releasing three fuzz-infused jangly sounding albums with a bevy of baseball references, Petite League is prepping for the release of their fourth album, “Rattler”. This time, the band is self-releasing the record on their own imprint, Zap World Records. I caught up with Cook leading up to the June 14th release of the album’s second single, “New York Girls” to talk about all things Petite League:
