Artie Rose was the short-lived recording alias of underground musician Peregrine Cardillo. Formed in the midst of creative conflicts in art-punk outfit Names You Know (of which he was the bassist and principle songwriter), the Artie Rose project was an opportunity for the then 17-year old Cardillo to diversify his writing/production from punk into a more electronic sound, which would eventually manifest in the Red Planet EP— an eclectic venture into various new genres. The entire extended play ranges between genres— eclectic at it’s best. ‘Getout’ is an industrial-rock anthem. ‘Debonaire’ is a bombastic mix of grunge and EDM. ‘Lithium’ is a blatant (if messy) pop song. ‘Slightly Sane’ has a spacey, melancholic lilt to it’s atmospheric vibe— and may be the track which foreshadowed his next project, loveletters, the most faithfully. ‘Dreams (Where Are We Now)’ is an ambient synthwave ballad of insanity, recorded with a single Akai sequencer keyboard. The entirety of the Artie Rose project was written, recorded, and produced by Cardillo on an iPad in his bedroom. During those late-night writing sessions, he penned several songs which would eventually materialize into some of his early loveletters material. While the Artie Rose project may have been brief, eclectic and incoherent, it paved the way for Cardillo’s shift in songwriting that made loveletters possible, and built an electronic sensibility that is still a raucously fun experience to revisit.