“Nineteen-year-old Ellen Kempner doesn't reinvent the indie-pop wheel with her '90s-tinged project Palehound, but her debut single, the minimal-yet-intoxicating ditty "Pet Carrot", is proof that with a few strong influences (Liz Phair, Elliott Smith and Kim Deal) a friend/mentor in Speedy Ortiz's Sadie Dupuis, and a congenital knack for melody all her own, Kempner hardly needs to start from scratch”
