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We’ve just found out we’ve been asked to play a showcase gig at Canadian Music Week in March 2009. We can’t wait. We love Canada and “the Canadians”!!!!!

Quiet on the gig front lately…settling in to being back in Australia and hybernating madly writing new songs for the next album. Catnip will be recording the next album with the amazing Kramer.

Don’t forget to buy our latest release…Mirror…produced by Kramer and recorded by Chris Thompson.

Oh and we’ve finally attached the latest press release on our site.

UK debut compiled from Melbourne slo-core trio’s back catalogue.

Given Catnip’s sonic bond with somnambulant trios Galaxie 500 and Low, who’ve both worked with New York alt-rock champ Kramer (of Bongwater and Shimmy Disc label fame), it’s no surprise he’s sprinkling fairy dust here, remixing cuts from the Australians’ two albums, 2003’s Pink & Blue & Green and 2007’s Falling, and releasing them himself from his new Miami base. Catnip suit Kramer’s tropical location; Nerida Trask’s half-asleep croon, drummer Greg Ryan’s jazzy restraint and guitarist Richmond Brain deliver hefty doses of sunburnt bliss…Richmond is the real star here, bridging desert blues and Cocteau Twins-style nu-gaze loops to lend Wish I Was a Bird and cover of Dylan’s Tomorrow is a Long Time a goose-bumpy, hallucinatory edge that sets Catnip apart from their peers.

Martin Aston

“Somewhere down in Australia they not only remember drowsy psych/shoegaze, they actually do something with it. Catnip, a trio from Melbourne, clearly adore albums by the likes of Mazzy Star and Mojave 3, not to mention homegrown heroes like the Paradise Motel, and ‘Mirror’, given a bit of further attractive murk and mellotron via the mix job by Kramer, shows they love wisely rather than too well on that front. Vocalist Nerida Trask, however, both sounds like her inspirations and puts down her own stamp, adding a touch of clipped bite to songs like “The Great Escape” (not a movie theme cover), but the quieter moodouts like “Sad Song” have their own spare glow to them, almost understatedly postpunk in a Young Marble Giants/Raincoats way. A cover of Bob Dylan’s “Tomorrow Is a Long Time: closes it out but otherwise it’s all them, and it’s all pretty promising.”
Ned Raggett - Plan B magazine

It’s easy to understand what drew former Galaxie 500 & Low producer Kramer to Catnip, who’s international debut is remixed and is now releasing. The drowsy pace of the seductive Aquamarine or the gently disconcerting Fly With Me match the elegant restraint of his former protégés while also bringing to mind the minimalist gothic beauty of Mazzy Star…” Eden Park – Uncut Magazine

We’re on the front page of NXNE!

www.nxne.com

Catnip will be performing a showcase gig at NXNE festival in Toronto, Canada in June.

Last FM

While you’re waiting for our website to be updated and the new album to be released, you can watch some footage of Catnip live on You Tube…here’s the link:

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!