Pete Lawrie is a singer-songwriter associated with blues, rock, indie and folk, and is a member of Until the Ribbon Breaks.

His writing draws on personal experience, with songs shaped by themes of death, dreams, friendship, regret, hope and everyday life. He describes his work as lacking a single planned concept, instead recurring to images and ideas that return across different songs. The music is presented as a way of joining language and melody, with an emphasis on tunes that stay with the listener and words written for the time they are sung.

He also frames the work as coming out of a turbulent period marked by evictions, near-death experience, bedroom recording, poverty, broken relationships, panic attacks, travel, lost belongings, changing homes and friendship, alongside continuing commitment to music. The account places him within a band context as well as a more individual songwriting tradition.

Commentary from radio presenters and music writers describes his voice as strong and expressive, and his songs as emotionally direct, melodically distinctive and rooted in blues-leaning rock. Those descriptions emphasise the contrast between roughness in the delivery and the strength of the melodies.