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Cover of Leche by Gregory And The Hawk.

Gregory And The Hawk

Leche

Fat Cat

    Gregory And The Hawk returns with her second FatCat album ‘Leche’, a more mature and honest collection of songs than her previous releases, which sees her expanding instrumentally onto piano and harp yet conveying a sense of her bedroom recording roots.

    Contributors include Jeremy Backofen (Felice Brothers), Rob Laakso (Amazing Baby, Diamond Nights, Mice Parade, Swirlies), and Adam Pierce (Mice Parade, Swirlies).

    TRACK LISTING

    For The Best
    Landscapes
    Over And Over
    Soulgazing
    Geysir Nationale
    Frebeight
    Olly Olly Oxen Free
    A Century Is All We Need
    Leaves
    Puller Return
    Hard To Define
    Dream Machine

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    Cover of Talking Through Repetition by The Psychotic Monks.

    The Psychotic Monks

    Talking Through Repetition

    Fat Cat

      One year after the release of their studio album ‘Pink Color Surgery’, The Psychotic Monks return to us more assertive than ever with ‘Talking Through Repetition’. Renowned for their fiery, experimental and emotionally charged live performances, The Psychotic Monks decided to share the vital essence of their music to a wider audience by recording their current live set.

      Recorded between shows in Dijon and Dunkerque during the bands 2023 tour, the live set (of track taken from ‘Pink Colour Surgery’) was recorded in one take at the legendary La Frette studios (Nick Cave, Arctic Monkeys), and once again stylishly produced by accomplice Daniel Fox (Gilla Band, Lambrini Girls, Sprints) and mastered by Jamie Hyland (CASKRÉ).

      TRACK LISTING

      01. All That Fall

      02. Crash

      03. Décors
      04. Location.memory
      05. Post-Post-
      06. Smile, Imagerie

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      Cover of Dazed by Abdomen.

      Abdomen

      Dazed

      Fat Cat

        ‘Dazed’ is the new single by recent FatCat signings and Netherlands power trio, Abdomen.

        Sometimes described in the Dutch press as ‘postgrunge garage’, Abdomen themselves are keen to avoid any pigeon-holes or genre labels: “We’ve been influenced by so many things. Right now punk, post-punk, and noise are important inspirations, but there are a lot, lot more. Rap, hip hop, electronic music, IDM, electro, and techno, for instance.”

        ‘Dazed’ is heavy, heavy hypnotic groove, with a chanted vocal and wall of phased, psychedelic shredding. There are echoes of outfits such as Loop and Spacemen 3 - their stoned / stoner aesthetics, albeit turned up to 11.

        It began as a demo set at a frantic pace before producer Rasmus Bredvig suggested slowing it down - “Something like 5 times” - morphing, mutating, the track into an epic, melodic, psyche mantra.

        A head-banging, trance-inducing, transcendental raga, with its sights set on spiritual lift-off, the piece aims to create a path away from the negative toward a more positive way of life.

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        Cover of Honeyblood - 10th Anniversary Edition by Honeyblood.

        Honeyblood

        Honeyblood - 10th Anniversary Edition

        Fat Cat

          Honeyblood’s acclaimed self-titled debut album was released a decade ago in July 2014. To mark the occasion, a 10th Anniversary Edition has been issued on translucent blood red vinyl. An album tour has been announced and starts in May.

          Recorded in just ten days in Connecticut, US, with producer Peter Katis, Honeyblood’s self-titled debut album was laid down in just ten days. Despite their then-fledgling status and minimal setup, the songs came fully formed and perfectly assured. With nothing extraneous, the music is driven through tightly bound instrumentals and laced with the sheer strength and beauty of Stina’s voice.

          The songs resonate with deep melodic hooks, and an uncomplicated charm that at the time drew comparisons to the likes of The Dum Dum Girls and the strident delivery of Jenny Lewis. They cited the darker currents of The Breeders, PJ Harvey and Throwing Muses as lifelong influences.

          From the urgent guitar and dive-bomb drums of opener, ‘Fall Forever’, the album twists through the gutsy punk of ‘Killer Bangs’ to reveal discordant anthems like ‘Super Rat’. It has pared-down, alt pop gems in the likes of ‘Biro’ and ‘No Spare Key’, but also more country-influenced moments like ‘(I’d Rather Be) Anywhere But Here’, ‘Braid Burn Valley’ and ‘Bud’.

          ‘Honeyblood’ pulls in elements of lo-fi punk rock, unfettered indie pop and a deep-seated passion for classic rootsy song crafting that helps give the album something of an undeniable feel.

          “There are a tonne of wicked reference points to get excited about - a vague hint of The Vaselines, nice touch of Velvets two-chord simplicity and even bit of Moz (solo, circa ‘Viva Hate’) chucked in for good measure in the melody” - NME

          “Achieves special merit points, not just for its irresistibly perky two-minute popsmarts but for productively moving the post- White Stripes formula on in a way that many have tried and many more have failed to do.” - MOJO

          “If you’re looking for some sugary crunch to your day, ‘Killer Bangs’ is the ticket, with rolling drums providing the backbone for toothache-inducing guitars and one hell of a central hook.” - Pitchfork

          TRACK LISTING

          Fall Forever
          Super Rat
          Anywhere But Here
          Bud
          Killer Bangs
          Biro
          Choke
          No Spare Key
          Joey
          Fortune Cookie
          All Dragged Up
          Braid Burn
          Super Rat (Old Mill Recordings)
          Bud (Old Mill Recordings)
          Biro (Old Mill Recordings)

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          Cover of Coat Of Arms by Holiday Ghosts.

          Holiday Ghosts

          Coat Of Arms

          Fat Cat

            Following-up their acclaimed 2023 ‘Absolute Reality’, Holiday Ghosts announce their fifth album, ‘Coat Of Arms’. The group’s latest material signals a new phase in their development and arrives alongside news of their biggest UK headline tour to date, including a date at London’s Moth Club lined up this April, which follows their debut trip stateside for SXSW.

            Lead single ‘Sublime Disconnect’ is a perfect distillation of the sound Holiday Ghosts have perfected over their career. Co-vocalist Kat Rackin’s driving drumming style and staccato vocal delivery propels a rousing guitar melody and breakneck bassline, until a catchy chorus of ‘ba ba bas’ erupts over the entire endeavour.

            However, beneath the buoyant demeanour belies a deeper lyrical meaning. “I’m Iranian, my parents were both born there and moved to Sweden after the Iranian revolution in the 80s,” explains Kat. “I was born in Malmö and moved to England when I was eight. I grew up as a child with little attachment to Iran as I tried my hardest to blend in with the people around me, but the older I got the more different I felt the more blurred my sense of self got.”

            ‘Sublime Disconnect’’s lyrics speak to this dissonance of identity, with lines like: “And now they ask who am I and where am I from / Will I find peace when I belong?” “In hindsight I can pinpoint a few incidents of racism that planted this seed that I didn’t-fully belong here, that Sweden or England, weren’t really my home,” says Kat, “nor is Iran as I have never been there as my parents aren’t allowed back. The song is partly putting this question out there: what does it mean to belong?”

            ‘Sublime Disconnect’ can be seen at the album’s political crux, the track anchors the band’s activist identity. “I think this question of belonging is kind of rhetorical though, because I don’t think there is peace for anyone except for those that make the rules,” says Kat. “I think living under governments where the immigration policies are getting more and more dystopian has also hugely contributed to this song and the notion of belonging. The line: ‘Does your future burn bright? And what about me? A free pass, favour, till I’m back on my feet,’ is a reference to privilege versus having to start from scratch, about the obliviousness that some people have towards the struggle of others.”

            TRACK LISTING

            Western Daylight
            Big Congratulations
            Dead Streets
            Energy
            Sublime Disconnect
            Coat Of Arms
            Tired Eyes
            Today’s Headlines
            I’m Still Here
            Shoot For Peace

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            Cover of Songs Wrought Wrong / Fecund With Love by Ubiquitous Meh!.

            Ubiquitous Meh!

            Songs Wrought Wrong / Fecund With Love

            Fat Cat

              Starting out as an organ and drum machine solo project for Luke Richards, Ubiquitous Meh! are now a fully-fledged band.

              Self-described as ‘Cult post-something organ jams for fans of Young Marble Giants / Dead Moon / the Stranglers’, they still only record to 4-track and still only do seven song records, pushing the old Hohner into every corner of the experimental pop landscape.

              “Vintage synth wizardry... a nostalgic evocation of late-1970s electronic experimentalism.” - Electronic Sound

              “Reminds me of the kind of post-punk indie releases John Peel would introduce on his radio show around 1979-80... entertaining and intriguing at the same time.” - Fear and Loathing

              “There’s a unique, underground beauty lurking within it.” - The PRSD

              “Hooky as hell, mysterious and prudently brilliant.” - HiveMind

              TRACK LISTING

              Songs Wrought Wrong
              Jigsaw
              Your Heart Is Still In Its Shrink
              Do You Want To Play Dress Up?
              Outta The Traps
              Gold Plate Coffin
              Smoke Like
              Got Nerves
              That’s Needless
              Fecund With Love
              Unit 4
              Mindrockin’
              Meh! Can Empower You 1
              Meh! Can Empower You 2

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              Cover of Absolute Reality by Holiday Ghosts.

              Holiday Ghosts

              Absolute Reality

              Fat Cat

                Arriving hot on the heels of acclaimed 2022 EP ‘Credit Note’, ‘Absolute Reality’ tackles different themes of social commentary, with fiery lyrics and hard picked guitars, holding both honest confessions and tall tales, lived stories and movie-like landscapes. Showcasing the noise and texture that Holiday Ghosts love from the New York punk scene and New Wave era, ‘Vulture’ cements their flourishing status within the alt-rock scene and lays down a real marker ahead of their spring LP release.

                TRACK LISTING

                01 Rocket
                02 Lunch
                03 Again And Again
                04 Limbo
                05 Vulture
                06 Lose The Game
                07 Blue
                08 Fight Or Flight
                09 Absolute Reality
                10 B Truck
                11 Big Cold River

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                Cover of Midnight Proposals by Jennifer Touch.

                Jennifer Touch

                Midnight Proposals

                Fat Cat

                  Berlin artist Jennifer Touch returns with her second album, ‘Midnight Proposals’, via FatCat Records.

                  Touch was reading ‘Grapes of Wrath’ by John Steinbeck when she started to work on ‘Midnight Proposals’. “The whole settlers movement touched me, and I really felt like a cowboy whilst writing and recording these songs,” she explains. It reminded her of her great-grandparents’ story, and the house they built in the 30s that was her sanctuary as a child. “As cosy as it was, I always yearned for somewhere else, to find myself and my own place to settle.”

                  Full of hope and mystery, ‘Midnight Proposals’ is a selection of songs that both celebrate and question the romance of this illusion, documenting a very human desire to search for our people and our safe place.

                  For a reinvigorated Touch, it marks the next stop of a journey both artistically and sonically. “These are my dark proposals to the world,” she proclaims. “So come and join me around the fire!”

                  Unlike biographical debut album ‘Behind the Wall’, which took years to pen, ‘Midnight Proposals’ was written in an explosion of energy and creativity and completed in just four months. Touch spent a few weeks prior sorting her set-up from her Berlin studio and gathering the tools she needed to complete the record. “I didn’t know what was going to happen, I just said to the universe: hey, I’m here and I’m your vessel. It was a like a trip or something and I really don’t remember the process, but I love every song on it.”

                  STAFF COMMENTS

                  Barry says: A wonderfully rich mix of Berlin school electronics and fractured cold wave, topped with Touch's haunting vocal delivery. It's minimalistic in terms of the amount of instruments used, but fills the sound spectrum with reverbs and drones a mile wide. A lot of industrial and cold wave of the 80's is produced a little roughly but the atmosphere and delivery of this record is second to none. Brilliant.

                  TRACK LISTING

                  Summerchild
                  Rumor
                  A Day
                  Prayer
                  Sacred Type
                  Gudrun
                  Twisted
                  Soft & Dark
                  Shot Shot
                  Already There
                  Art
                  Sold Out
                  Strings

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                  Cover of Social Graces by Loose Fit.

                  Loose Fit

                  Social Graces

                  Fat Cat

                    ‘Social Graces’ is the debut album from Australian post-punk outfit Loose Fit. Made up of Kaylene Miller, Anna Langdon, Max edgar and Richard Martin, Kaylene & Anna met in fashion school & instantly bonded through their love of experimental music. After toying with lo-fi bedroom recordings, the pair recruited Max edgar on guitar and Richard Martin on bass and started making some actual noise.

                    Kaylene is also behind the cult knitwear brand WAH-WAH Australia with items worn by Noel Fielding, Courtney Barnett and even Kim Gordon. The band’s rhythm-heavy sound contains echoes of UK post-punk titans such as PiL and A Certain Ratio.

                    TRACK LISTING

                    Side A
                    1. Social Graces
                    2. Cool Change
                    3. Stupid Drama
                    4. Cut Your Teeth
                    5. Exhale

                    Side B
                    6. Mosquito
                    7. Colours For The Walls
                    8. Best Face Forward
                    9. On Land
                    10. Enemies
                    11. Potential Things

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                    Cover of Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters - 2022 Reissue by The Twilight Sad.

                    The Twilight Sad

                    Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters - 2022 Reissue

                    Fat Cat

                      ‘Fourteen Autumns…’ is a complete record, the nine tracks working together to create a strong narrative flow. Deceptively simple songs are rendered transcendent. Bleached, overdriven guitars consistently ride a line between ambient and coruscating, working in tandem with an articulate, at times tumultuous rhythm section, forever poised between tension and release. Augmented by piano and more frequently accordion, which provide the songs with a dramatic swoon, The Twilight Sad purvey an awestruck, ragged sentimentality. Lyrically suggestive and metaphorical, their songs give glimpses of bitter experience and romantic failure, their songs at times verging on the anthemic or celebrative, yet firmly rooted in the familiar, often unsaid hurt behind day to day events.

                      TRACK LISTING

                      Side A
                      1. Cold Days From The Birdhouse
                      2. That Summer, At Home I Had Become The Invisible Boy
                      3. Walking For Two Hours
                      4. Last Year’s Rain Didn’t Fall So Hard
                      Side B
                      1. Talking With Fireworks / Here, It Never Snowed
                      2. Mapped By What Surrounded Them
                      3. And She Would Darken The Memory
                      4. I’m Taking The Train Home
                      5. Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters

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                      Cover of No One Can Ever Know - 2022 Reissue by The Twilight Sad.

                      The Twilight Sad

                      No One Can Ever Know - 2022 Reissue

                      Fat Cat

                        The Twilight Sad’s third full-length, No One Can Ever Know, marks a sonic shift for the band. Freshly inspired by a listening diet of Cabaret Voltaire, Can, Liars, Magazine, Autechre, and Public Image Limited, the band turn to a dark, synth-heavy sound for No One Can Ever Know; the resulting LP shares thematic and sonic space with the most innovative offerings from Depeche Mode, The Cure, or even Nine Inch Nails. “We wanted to be a lot more spontaneous, get outside our comfort zone - not to fall back into repeating what we’ve done previously,” explains guitarist Andy MacFarlane. “So we moved to London for a month to record at The Pool and got Andrew Weatherall involved to bounce ideas off and to generally reassure us of the direction we were already progressing in – toward a sparser sound, with a colder, slightly militant feel.”

                        TRACK LISTING

                        Side A
                        1. Alphabet
                        2. Dead City
                        Side B
                        3. Sick
                        4. Don’t Move
                        Side C
                        5. Nil
                        6. Don’t Look At Me
                        7. Not Sleeping
                        Side D
                        8. Another Bed
                        9. Kill It In The Morning

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                        Cover of Lets It In by Breathe Panel.

                        Breathe Panel

                        Lets It In

                        Fat Cat

                          Split between London and Brighton, Breathe Panel come together to create a sound that is the sum of their four parts. Playing together half unplugged in a living room and swapping drums for cushions is where they would often hit their natural rhythm, capturing a shared feeling in songs in a quick and simple way.

                          With no agenda other than enjoying making music together, the resulting album Lets It In is ultimately positive in outlook. Themes include falling in love, moments in places, light, breathing, walking, urban living and finding beauty in a sometimes heavy environment. Living together in a shared house in East London, frontman Nick Green and lead guitarist Josh Tyler would start writing songs together as an escape from the restlessness of the city. “A sort of meditation from the mess”, says Nick.

                          TRACK LISTING

                          Side A
                          1. A Good Day
                          2. Lets It In
                          3. Tomatoes
                          4. Sure
                          5. Spring

                          Side B
                          6. Days Inbetween
                          7. Stretch
                          8. Love You, I Love You
                          9. Sometimes Brighter
                          10. I Cannot Wait To Be There
                          11. My Preferred Memory Was

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                          Cover of Social Haul by Social Haul.

                          Social Haul

                          Social Haul

                          Fat Cat

                            Social Haul’ is a collection of songs to get to know us by. The album loosely depicts a protagonist challenging perceived negative aspects of character, particularly in others, attacking in stages or episodes. Not dissimilar to that unfinished Bruce Lee movie. Including bouts with ignorance, through to rebellion, disassociation, spiritual bypass[1]ing, indifference and eventually light-enlightenment. ‘Social Haul’ centres around the middle distance, the place in which we realise that no matter how insignificant or excluded we may feel, we all have something worthwhile to say. Produced with Daniel Fox (Girl Band).

                            TRACK LISTING

                            A
                            1. Complain
                            2. Wet Eyes
                            3. This Is All I Need
                            4. Anthea
                            5. The Bayou

                            B
                            6. The Ease
                            7. Prized From The Rot
                            8. The Best Dust-Up
                            9. Utmost Care
                            10. I Have A Pen

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                            Cover of All Or Nothing by Shopping.

                            Shopping

                            All Or Nothing

                            Fat Cat

                            Shopping return with their new album All Or Nothing – a record that speaks about commitment, leaps of faith and tests of courage. “A lot has happened in our personal lives since we last recorded and we knew this album was going to reflect that exciting and scary feeling that comes with change, heartbreak and personal evolution”, the band explains. Since their last record the band are now spread across the globe with Billy in LA and Andrew and Rachel in Glasgow, and the songs were written in a two week intensive period while they were all together. Taking a bold leap towards pop with their most vibrant & punchy production to date, mixed and produced by Nick Sylvester. For fans of ESG, Bodega, Priests, Squid, Public Practice, Sacred Paws, Sault, Dry Cleaning.

                            STAFF COMMENTS

                            Barry says: Driven rolling bass and fuzzy guitars swirl around under the angular, mathy buzz. Shopping maintain the momentum while injecting things with a good amount of vigour, and a keen melodic sensibility. Lovely stuff.

                            TRACK LISTING

                            Side A:
                            Trust In Us
                            Initiative
                            Follow Me
                            No Apologies
                            For Your Pleasure

                            Side B:
                            About You
                            Lies
                            Expert Advice
                            Body Clock
                            All Or Nothing

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                            Cover of Body Negative by MNNQNS.

                            MNNQNS

                            Body Negative

                            Fat Cat

                              The album is a rare record that manages to be both fiery and textural. It combines the charge and speed of a record that resembles a car veering dangerously close to a cliff edge yet also manages to instil a confidence in the ability of the driver. MNNQNS exude a sense of controlled danger and chaos and this permeates throughout their debut. This feverish and unpredictable approach is also represented by the band’s diverse musical tastes and inspirations. If you’ve ever wondered what a record would sound like that shares influences as eclectic as Deerhunter, Death Grips, the Beach Boys, Omni and the films of Jean-Jacques Beineix then wonder no more because MNNQNS debut is the answer.

                              Such a sense of determination and focus is apparent on the record throughout; whether it’s the post-punk assault of “Wire (Down to The)”, the harmony-soaked pop swing of “NotWhatYouThoughtYouKnew”, the deeply textural explorations of “Stagnant Pools” - which combines seamless melody with an urgency that resembles This Heat - or the kick-down-your-frontdoor charge of “Urinals”. This duality of harmony and discordance that exists on the record is something that D’Epinay feels when he reflects on the recording process. “Some tracks make me want to go out and dance whilst others remind me of being totally alone in the countryside. Listening to the record is like being pushed away from the city and then dragged back in.”

                              TRACK LISTING

                              A-Side

                              1. Body Negative
                              2. NotWhatYouThoughtYouKnew
                              3. She’s Waiting For The Day
                              4. Double Visions
                              5. Different Sides Of Truth
                              6. Limits Of Town
                              7. Urinals
                              8. Desperation Moon

                              B-Side

                              9. Drinking From The Pond
                              10. Fall Down
                              11. Stagnant Pools
                              12. Wire (Down To The)
                              13. (Ghost Track,

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                              Cover of The Heavy Steps Of Dreaming by Minor Pieces.

                              Minor Pieces

                              The Heavy Steps Of Dreaming

                              Fat Cat

                                ‘The Heavy Steps Of Dreaming’ is the brilliant debut album from Vancouver-based Minor Pieces, a new songwriting partnership comprising acclaimed singer/composer Ian William Craig and newcomer Missy Donaldson, a singer and multi-instrumentalist. Retaining some of the textural play and experimentation of Ian’s solo material whilst channeling it squarely within the domain of tangible songwriting, the pair utilise guitar, modified tape decks, bass and synths to fashion deeply-felt songs with their beautifully matched male/ female vocals standing resolutely centre-stage. Taking influence and inspiration from the likes of Low, Grouper, Mazzy Star, Portishead, My Bloody Valentine, Talk Talk and Cat Power, ‘The Heavy Steps Of Dreaming’ sounds at once familiar whilst forging something new, unique and beyond the sum of its influences.

                                Over the course of its 8 tracks - from the opening bars of ‘Rothko’ to the resonant closing lines of ‘Shipbreaking’ - the duo move fluidly between voices, shift from moments of overwhelming power to perfect points of stillness; from acoustic balladry pared down to the sparsest of means to thick, tumbling swells of tape and electronics or billowing synth trails. At both album and song level, it’s a work of contrasts and combinations; of broad, bold dynamics. Masterfully crafted, the lyrics are rendered with an almost painterly approach and reveal a palpable joy in the richness of language and its capacity to conjure resonances, to hold moments close and to patch together meaning from life’s scattered detritus. What’s forged is a kind of Alt. Americana filtered through a progressive modern lens and the tactile, heavily processed tactics of Ian’s solo practice – an approach that links to the corrosive asethetics of electronic artists like Fennesz, William Basinski or The Caretaker.

                                TRACK LISTING

                                1 Rothko
                                2 This House
                                3 Brávallagata
                                4 Grace
                                5 Burden
                                6 The Way We Are In Song
                                7 Tender Fire
                                8 Shipbreaking

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                                Cover of Unravelling by We Were Promised Jetpacks.

                                We Were Promised Jetpacks

                                Unravelling

                                Fat Cat

                                Brimming with emotion and passion, this musically strong and assured album sees the unique and identifiable Jetpacks sound now grown and fully galvanised.

                                ‘Unravelling’ is a captivating ride of tense excitement, pounding rhythm, huge walls of cavernous guitar and hyperborean beauty, all kept in check by the band’s gifted songwriting skills.

                                The album release also sees the addition of a new member to the band in the form of multi-instrumentalist Stuart McGachan. Adam Thompson explains “Stuart is an accomplished keys, piano and guitar player as well as having a lovely little singing voice, and with him we’ve tried to do something a little different. We've known him for ages and played music with him before so we were pretty sure it would work out. It has just been the four of us since 2004, so having someone new with us has been an enjoyable part of the process.”

                                TRACK LISTING

                                1: Safety In Numbers
                                2: Peaks And Troughs
                                3: I Keep It Composed
                                4: Peace Sign
                                5: Night Terror
                                6: Disconnecting
                                7: Bright Minds
                                8: A Part Of It
                                9: Moral Compass
                                10: Peace Of Mind
                                11: Ricochet

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                                Cover of Chinese Fountain by The Growlers.

                                The Growlers

                                Chinese Fountain

                                Fat Cat

                                The Growlers have announced details of the release of their new album. Chinese Fountain will be released through Fat Cat Records. Having demoed the tracks at guitarist Matt Taylor’s Topanga home, the 11-track album was recorded quickly in a week-and-a-half at Sea Horse Sands Studio in downtown Los Angeles. Produced by JP Plunier.

                                Self-describing their music as “Beach Goth”, sunburned and salty, the term perfectly describes their distinctive melding of reverb heavy surf guitar and Bakersfield-style honky tonk with ‘80s post-punk. Chinese Fountain, their fourth long-player having formed in Dana Point, California in 2006, is their most confident album to date.

                                “The band played better than they’ve ever played,” says Brooks Nielsen. “We’ve got the process down now. There’s less screwing around to get the songs laid out and we weren’t waiting around for take after take. We knew it and we played without much time to spare.”

                                TRACK LISTING

                                1: Big Toe
                                2: Black Memories
                                3: Chinese Fountain
                                4: Dull Boy
                                5: Good Advice
                                6: Going Gets Tough
                                7: Magnificent Sadness
                                8: Love Test
                                9: Not The Man
                                10: Rare Hearts
                                11: Purgatory Drive

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                                Cover of Hung At Heart by Growlers.

                                Growlers

                                Hung At Heart

                                Fat Cat

                                  Will appeal to fans of: The Black Keys, The Beach Boys, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Captain Beefheart, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Black Lips, The Doors, The Allah-Las.

                                  “…pitchy organ and plunky, country-western bass are punctuated by faux-dub echoes that hang like tapestries in a chill-bro den.” SPIN

                                  “Invokes a smoking ‘60s beach party” Time Out

                                  “The So-Cal five-piece sound so comfortable being the stoned philosopher on Hung at Heart, hopping from party to party, delivering gems of lyrical wisdom in the midst of the thoroughly kicked out jams.” Consequence of Sound

                                  TRACK LISTING

                                  1. Someday
                                  2. Naked Kids
                                  3. Salt On A Slug
                                  4. One Million Lovers
                                  5. No Need For Eyes
                                  6. Living In A Memory
                                  7. Pet Shop Eyes
                                  8. In Between
                                  9. Burden Of The Captain
                                  10. Row
                                  11. It's No Use

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                                  Cover of Yucca by Milk Maid.

                                  Milk Maid

                                  Yucca

                                  Fat Cat

                                  Milk Maid is Martin Cohen from Nine Black Alps.

                                  They were discovered by Jack Cooper of Mazes, who released a single on Suffering Jukebox before they were signed by FatCat Records.

                                  The whole album was recorded on Martin’s 8-track in his flat in Manchester.

                                  Reference points include Mazes, Woods and the Woodsist label, The Shins, Guided By Voices, Oasis, Jesus And Mary Chain.

                                  “Milk Maid are already a smashing success” - NME; “Have a listen to the wonderful Milk Maid, new signing to FatCat. I am addicted” - Scott from Frightened Rabbit on Twitter.

                                  STAFF COMMENTS

                                  Darryl says: Fuzzed-up indie guitars and lo-fi melodic vocals with an American edge, that would sit more than nicely on the Captured Tracks and Woodsist labels.

                                  TRACK LISTING

                                  1. Such Fun
                                  2. Can’t You See
                                  3. Oh!
                                  4. Dead Wrong
                                  5. Girl
                                  6. Not Me
                                  7. Kill Me Again
                                  8. Same As What
                                  9. Back Of Your Knees
                                  10. Sad Song
                                  11. Someone You Thought You’d Forgot

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                                  Cover of I Mean To Live Here Still by David Karsten Daniels & Fight The Big Bull.

                                  David Karsten Daniels & Fight The Big Bull

                                  I Mean To Live Here Still

                                  Fat Cat

                                    The first collaboration between David Karsten Daniels and Fight The Big Bull, "I Mean To Live Here Still" is the product of two decidedly individual, but musically (and geographically) distant sets of musicians.

                                    David Karsten Daniels is an immensely talented, formally-trained composer/musician with a background in hymn singing and four-track experimentation, and a release history of gentle, acoustic, plaintive folk music embellished with touches of orchestration and jazz.

                                    Following on from Daniels’ "Sharp Teeth" and "Fear Of Flying" albums, this record is a lush contribution to a stunning personal canon and an album that transcends influence, tradition and climate.

                                    Fight The Big Bull are a nonet led by composer / arranger / guitarist Matthew White, exist loosely in the Duke Ellington / Charles Mingus / Ornette Coleman plane of jazz, yet are fiercely, often unpredictably, unique.

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                                    2. The Funeral Bell
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                                    4. October Airs
                                    5. On Fields
                                    6. Though All The Fates
                                    7. Salmon Brook
                                    8. Smoke
                                    9. Each Summer Sound
                                    10. Epitaph On The World

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