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We’ve heard the Kramer remixes of our songs from both the album and EP and we have to say we’re quite excited! The release will be in time for our international tour scheduled for Feb-May 2008. Stay tuned!

You can finally purchase our album “Falling” from iTunes and Waterfront Records!

Purchase “Falling” from iTunes

Purchase “Falling” from Waterfront Records

Well here we are in 2007 and how fast it seems to be going already! We welcomed the New Year with a fantastic gig at Peats Ridge Festival in NSW…what a beautiful setting for a great festival. We are now focused heavily on making our debut album launch a successful one. If any of you are planning to come to our launch, make sure you pre-purchase your tickets from the Northcote Social Club by phoning 03 9486 1677 or www.northcotesocialclub.com. It’s shaping up to be a great night with our special guests for the night, the wonderful All India Radio.

You can also hear us on 3PBSFM on the 25th of January in an interview with Sean Lynch on Planet of Sound. You can listen online: www.apStream.net/clients/streams/3pbsfm.asx or live on 3PBSFM.

Hope to see you all at the launch.

xx catnip

Catnip “Falling” (Second Shimmy 2006)

An affectingly spooky and haunting debut from a gifted and adventurous band

Catnip are a three piece Australian band from Melbourne this is their debut record. The vocal style of singer Nerida Trask calls to mind Harriet Wheeler of 90s Brit band The Sundays, with occasional hints of the Cowboy Junkies Margo Timmins and Cocteau Twins’ Liz Fraser. The musical backing wanders from electronica into something more organic and rootsy and back again, like a less funereal Black Heart Procession, particularly on ‘Here We Go Again’, which has some fine other worldly guitar drifting around amongst keyboard bleeps and blips. The record creates a haunting lonely sunlit atmosphere, and although Nerida’s vocals don’t go as far as the Liz Fraser non-language thing, they significantly contribute to the mood as another instrument, at least as much as they do in terms of lyrics. The drums too are not merely beat keeping but adding textures, such as on the closing of ‘Wish I Was A Bird’. ‘Stay’ has a touch of David Lynch/Angelo Badalamenti menace, indeed much of the record has cinematic open spaces running through it. ‘Tomorrow Is A Long Time’ is early Cowboy Junkies style, but like many of the songs, it’s so well done that the influences just get overridden. A very promising debut.

Date review added: Sunday, December 03, 2006
Reviewer: Patrick Wilkins
Reviewers Rating: 8 out of 10
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