Catified

Here is Catified01 - the first of many playlists which are full of songs that we are currently listening to and loving...

http://open.spotify.com/user/fatcat09/playlist/0jJ16v0s5baRJuFlEgMLNV

The Twilight Sad - I Became A Prostitute - New 7'' released today in UK/Europe

"The first single from Scottish quartet's new album is a wonderfully dark indicator of things to come." - NME

"If it's OK to talk about something doing funny things to your insides, without sounding like a perv, then I'm saying that about this song it's heartwarming and unnerving all at once" - Musicweek

"...they let their bilious aggression out of it's cage to roam free...brilliant and still very much untamed" - The Skinny

"Forget The Night Ahead material is even more harrowing than predecessor Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters – so if you think lines like “the kids are on fire in the bedroom” were dark, prepare to be scared sh*tless." - The Line of Best Fit

"A riveting exercise in articulating powerful emotions through sound." - Clash Magazine

"Unflinchingly massive, unflinchingly gritty. Ace." - The Fly

The Twilight Sad, the most singular of a new breed of British noise bands, move up a gear towards the release of their sophomore album Forget The Night Ahead (out 5/10/2009) with the release of a brand new single I Became A Prostitute.

The band have been busy previewing new songs on both sides of the Atlantic with recent US dates with Mogwai, and a UK headline tour in May which included heart-stoppingly intense performances at three Stag & Dagger events and two sets at Brighton’s Great Escape Festival. In September they are set to head back over to the US this time accompanied by Frightened Rabbit and We Were Promised Jetpacks to begin an extensive US tour.

I Became A Prostitute falls at the more melodic end of the The Twilight Sad scale, a siren-like guitar line drags the ear in immediately; tremolo’d and unflinchingly dark. Graham’s vocals soar with an inimitable despair and desperation over a deceptively simple instrumentation of Joy Division-like depth and impact: each drum beat measured and thunderous, each squalling guitar riff at once apocalyptically discordant and beautifully harmonious. The song’s chorus is gripping, the band’s emotional input palpable.

In lyrical terms, the new album is possibly a darker set even than its hallowed predecessor Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters. Singer James Graham’s portentous knack for forcefully delivering unsettling lines remains very much intact. Musically too, the forthcoming record is no less tumultuous, its broad cacophony stretching to produce the band’s most simultaneously melodic and abrasive moments yet.

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FatCat Mix up on Arctic Circle now...

Brought to you by Arctic Circle Radio, the Circle is a new weekly pod-cast that takes you on a one-hour journey based on the most simple and significant of shapes. Every Circle is unique; formed from a guest curator’s musical landscape and they all share the same revolutionary quality: each one ends at the point where it began.
Edition 10 – FatCat Records mix by staff man Dave Howell:

There’s no grand concept or narrative guiding the choices – it’s all stuff from the FatCat vaults, a mixture of some classic older tracks with a few overlooked gems that deserve to be heard again. I just started out with a track from Black Dice’s ‘Beaches & Canyon’s’, which I think works as a great opener, and from there, just basically picked things that I felt fit alongside one another and kept.

Black Dice – Things Will Never Be The Same
Grain - Untitled (A3 from ‘grain Ep3′)
Mum – Don’t Be Afraid, You Have Got Your Eyes Closed
Aoki Takamasa + Tujiko Noriko – Vinyl Words
Janek Schaefer – Light Over Las Vegas
Set Fire To Flames – Your Guts Are Like Mine
Hauschka – Eisblume
Bjork Mit Funkstorung – All Is Full Of Love (In Love With Funkstorung Mix)
Dorine_Muraille – Dopees
Animal Collective – Banshee Beat
Crescent – Mica
Black Dice – Night Flight
Ensemble – Disown, Delete
Max Richter – When The northern
Silje Nes – Bright Night Morning
The Twilight Sad – That Summer At Home, I Had Become The Invisible Boy (Ensemble remix)
Max Richter – In Louisville At 7
Songs Of Green Pheasant – West Coast Profiling
Black Dice – Things Will Never Be The Same


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The Twilight Sad announce US tour with Brakesbrakesbrakes + We Were Promised Jetpacks

You’ve already heard about The Twilight Sad and We Were Promised Jetpacksjoining Frightened Rabbit for an epic journey throughout the US west coast and south.

As if that weren’t enough fantastic tour news for one season, The Twilight Sad have announced that they’ll continue across the continent, this time joined by labelmates Brakesbrakesbrakes, withWe Were Promised Jetpacks staying the course.

The Twilight Sad will be continue to tour in support of their upcoming album ‘Forget The Night Ahead’, which will be released 22 Septemberin the US and Canada. Brakesbrakesbrakes will be making their first US jaunt in support of April’s phenomenal ‘Touchdown’, and We Were Promised Jetpacks will similarly be making their first full US run since the 7 July release of debut album ‘These Four Walls’.

Full run of dates follows. Stay tuned for additional Brakesbrakesbrakes shows to be announced soon.

3 Sept - Monolith Festival, Morrison CO (The Twilight Sad, We Were Promised Jetpacks)

FRIGHTENED RABBIT, THE TWILIGHT SAD, WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS
14 Sept - Urban Lounge, Salt Lake City UT
15 Sept - Neurolux, Boise ID
16 Sept - Neumo’s, Seattle, WA
17 Sept -MusicFest NW, Portland, OR
18 Sept - The Independent, San Francisco CA
20 Sept - Knitting Factory, Los Angeles CA
22 Sept - Plush, Tucson AZ
24 Sept - The Mohawk, Austin TX
26 Sept - Bottletree, Birmingham AL
27 Sept - The Masquerade, Atlanta GA
28 Sept - Club Downunder, Tallahassee FL
29 Sept - The Social, Orlando FL

THE TWILIGHT SAD, BRAKESBRAKESBRAKES, WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS
1 Oct - Local 506, Chapel Hill NC
3 Oct - North Star Bar, Philadelphia PA
5 Oct - Black Cat Backstage, Washington DC
6 Oct - Bowery Ballroom, New York NY
7 Oct - Great Scott, Allston MA
9 Oct - La Sala Rossa, Montreal Quebec
10 Oct - El Mocambo, Toronto Ontario
11 Oct - Blind Pig, Ann Arbor MI
12 Oct - Empty Bottle, Chicago IL

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Photograph by Nic Shonfeld