kitten

looking forward to this. "G#" is really good - and reminds me of Chrome-era Catherine Wheel (in a good way).

this is out! http://open.spotify.com/album/6ZkDP9Sw48nJ0eLQ2JEbhs

I'm just now hearing this after observing you and maura put it out there for a couple weeks. A+ grade so far and I'm only on the first song. Kind of wish her voice had just a little bit more of something—not sure what—but it's serviceable.

Lots of different stuff going on here. The voice suits some songs more than others. And "G#" is phenom!

woah at the unexpected crescendo + saxophone breakdown halfway through cathedral!

This has become one of the default commercials for me on youtube and as a result, I'm kinda getting tired of it.

so far every single song has sounded completely different from the next. morose, massive guitars on g sharp! love it.

"Cut It Out" is a song of the year contender for me. This album is all over the place and goes from crystal castles to prince to the joy formidable over the space of a couple of tracks, but I kind of love it. paramore fans are sleepin'

i gave this album a shot the other week and there was something about it that was just not clicking despite it *sounding good* and all. "like a stranger" is a jam tho so i may give it another shot sometime.

Really love this now. Took me a little while and it's a bit more throwaway poppy than I originally thought?

Cathedral and G# are ace

I'm glad I remembered to come back to this album as I start rounding up my year-end favorites. A lot of what's novel about this record (and what makes me like it most) is that she's channeling 80s music that wasn't particularly cool then and is no cooler now. "Like a Stranger," for instance, feels like something by Fiona that would play as the credits roll in a C. Thomas Howell movie.

yep! i wish the album were a little more coherent but i basically love what it's doing

new song!!! VERY reminiscent of suede's 'trash' but with more gothy touches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9mvUCL-5U

it's exactly Trash (is the first word even Trash)
not a problem

and something else in the verses, something like Bananarama...?

this song is great

didn't know she'd covered Panic, either (ages ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN1rTKEgBys

Getting addicted to Fall On Me. Aside from Trash, the sound/production or something else about it immediately reminded me of Johnny Boy's You Are the Generation That Bought More Shoes -- though it's been years since I've heard it so might be faulty memory.

Another new one, this one does actually sound Smiths-y/ The Cure-y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDbXKsd5VtM

there's an EP, Heaven or Somewhere in Between

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOn2MlmH7h4

holyyyy shit

u2's "numb" as a synth pop song with saxophone, or an alt universe new sky ferreira record

saw kitten on friday night and it was so great! chloe chaidez is one of my favorite lead singers out there right now. also the "g#" to "purple rain" segue made a lot of things click in my head

unfortunately i'm only checking in after a few years but the new ep is wonderful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStNNJTkhXw

that's brilliant and i'm immediately going to track down all the no-longer-embedded songs from this thread

this is still my favorite kitten song, though it's been deleted from most streaming services and the video's gone too :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdpsEv_U5_k

i've seen the future, and the future is unkind

new album is wild

'american football' is one of my fav songs of the year

there's a new album?

personal hotspots, out 12/10

i'll look forward to it

'american football' is one of my fav songs of the year

― flopson, Thursday, November 18, 2021 12:10 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Likewise! Hyped for this.

ooh. I didn't much like the 'Memphis' stuff.

but this is sounding good

when I google 'Kitten' "personal hotspots" i only get stuff like this https://gizmodo.com/this-wifi-enabled-space-toilet-for-cats-turned-me-into-1847303337

lol i assumed when i got the promo email the album had been announced, sorry 4 the leak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8x92lqpRNE

after "american football," this is my favorite of the recently-released singles that made the record

This album is crazy stupid and I love it

oh i forgot about this

fun album, some wild decisions, like what the hell is "daddy don't take my phone"? but it works

Daddy Don't Take My Phone made so much more sense once I that learned it was a Gupi/Umru collab. great album.

that makes sense but i'd also have never expected that

I feel about 100 years old but is there a CD or download or is it all streaming these days?

i don't think there's any sort of physical release (yet?) but there's downloads from itunes, 7digital, etc

thanks!

Love this. Does it for me better than pale waves if they’re comparable

also loving this. i also love the pale waves album, both probably in my top 5

first time i heard 'do u still love me' i thought 'ok this is just too much of a haim rip' but it really won me over

'american football' is the new mitski 'your best american girl' guitar crash landing from 5,000 ft into the chorus

i enjoyed this interview from a couple years ago. kinda refreshing how transparent they are about angling to 'make it' in the music biz. maybe that's an LA thing

What inspired you while creating this EP?

Chloe Chaidez: We’ve really been inspired by bands from the early 2000s: Smash Mouth, Linkin Park. Mike Shinoda produced “Me.” I think the sound is a product of the internet age. For instance, the lyrics on “Memphis” are a bit chaotic. I think that’s how I take in “content” on a daily basis.

Parker Silzer: When you’ve been doing music for a while like all of us have, you see how music regurgitates itself in 10, 20-year cycles. There was a little bit of calculation on our part of like, ‘We’ve just been living through five, six years of insane ’90s revivalism. We know what’s happening next.’ We all lived through the late ’90s, early 2000s. We know all that music’s coming back. We know if we start incorporating some of those sounds or concepts or visuals now, that’s going to put us in a good place for what’s coming next in music. It also comes from us living through that era and loving it. But then figuring out how to take that assessment of the future of music and combine it with contemporary sound, so it’s not like we’re a revival band. Nobody wants to do that.

to my ears the album strikes a great balance b/w professionalism/chart ambition but also fucking around, they were clearly having a blast going nuts in the studio ('my house', 'daddy don't take my phone')

i'm also super confused by how many bandmembers there are, every photo i've seen of them is a different group of 3-6 ppl lol

https://music.mxdwn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Kitten-Press-Photo-1-1280x720.jpg

https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/media/KITTEN-press-photo-2019-billboard-1548.jpg

https://music-b26f.kxcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Kitten-Single-Artwork-2021-600x600.png

pale waves feels much more like a retro exercise to me. what I like about this is that the nostalgia here is all mixed up and 'imperfect' rather than 'nailing a sound,' and it coheres because the closest band that this resembles IMO is the 1975 -- not in surface characteristics, its pastiche is pretty different, but in terms of it being a meta-pop act whos lyrics, concepts, concerns speak to the present even while its music taps on different facets of history ready player one style.

its the best 1975-like thing i've heard because its surface distance creatively lets it feel like its own distinct thing, vs all the other 1975 core stuff sounding like an extension of matt healy. 'what year are we in' makes all this stuff explicit, speaking at once to its creative process and to just the state of modern life without talking down to its audience in this kind of dumbed down effort at 'timelessness.' talking about nostalgia is the 'super nintendo, sega genesis' of 2022 or whatever

pale waves is way more narrow in the sound they target but they do it so well and the songwriting is really strong. (also micro-generationally the first avril album is prime nostalgia real estate to me specifically). beeabadobee ep is the other best 1975-core release this year

vs all the other 1975 core stuff sounding like an extension of matt healy

this is probably due to matt being directly involved in producing or songwriting for the others v.s. this just being an afaik totally unrelated band?

sure! I mean I like some of that stuff. I like 'cologne' off the beabadobee a lot. I guess to me this album just felt more substantial/ significant than this other stuff, like its figured out its own path outside his shadow, learning the right lessons etc.

I’m going to see the @the1975 tomorow. I haven’t seen them since 2013 , SXSW. This shit will be very sentimental thank u @Truman_Black

— KITTEN (@KITTENTHEBAND) February 21, 2020

so uh chloe chaidez (kitten's lead singer) is making an album with ariel pink (they've been pals for a while, he's in a kitten video from ages ago) which is already embarrassing enough

but here's a photo he posted months ago apparently featuring her doing a nazi salute (screenshot is one of chaidez's bandmates in another band mad at her for this)

https://imgur.com/a/Fl16z4J

this edgelord shit sucks!!!

like we know pink is a reactionary piece of shit so going along with his bullshit doesn't say anything good about her

oh no

i thought fall on me sounded like it was made for belinda carlisle to sing, like a follow-up to leave a light on or something. the way she handles lyrics like gone, but are you really gone, seem so belinda to me.

not saying there was any intention, but if there was, this is exactly what it would sound like, except, somehow better. more vulnerability and melancholy, but i'm not judging. belinda would have upped the warble quotient a bit. either way, this is my favorite belinda carlisle song.