What a lovely review to read first thing thing in the morning...
Afogofideas Blogspot
Wednesday, 5 August 2009
Summer Cats 'Songs For Tuesdays'
Previous singles on Cloudberry and WeePOP! made it damn clear that this Melbourne 5 piece (2g's/3b's) possess a seemingly effortless ability to craft irresistible fizzing sparking all action 3 minute pop songs... 'Songs For Tuesdays' (Slumberland) shows the band flexing more muscle, sounding altogether beefier and brawnier, more dynamic...
Damn this album has pep
On this LP Summer Cats sound like... hmm... an early super poppy Stereolab crossed with Besties/Bunnygrunt laced with the crunching, clattering 'contents of a cutlery drawer tossed down a speeding escalator' guitars of Perth's possibly forgotten (by the many but not the eager few) This Poison!
It's just a freaking great POP record... all killer no filler... it swaggers, shimmies and it moves your hips and makes your heart soar and sometimes sore and I want to be surrounded by people who dig it too and we can all dance to it and whoop and holler; because it's a party record... because this is a POP band and they write tunes they clearly want to play and enjoy and enjoy playing to people and presumably they'll get off on that... the fun and the happiness they bring.
And isn't that enough?
I haven't got the luxury to sit about and get all academic and fwa-fwa-fwa about music... the music I crave has an immediacy
And I don't know what the purpose of blogs is/are beyond people just spouting on and on (sometimes winningly, sometimes not) but this LP's made me skip to the laptop (not literally) and post and I won't be the only one that does that... and I don't care what the critics say, whether they like this or not because I know... I know this is a great fucking record.
I don't really know what else to tell you... I doubt anyone's reading this anyway... so I'm posting this for myself... yeh... and what I'm telling myself is 'thank flip for this record' because it's serving it's purpose and making me feel carried away
I should've written a review of the Indietracks festival which happened a fortnight ago but I never...This seems more NOW and Indietracks is another 12 months away anyway (mind you this years was fucking amazing, so maybe I will write about it soon...)'Songs For Tuesdays' is just a fucking great record, if you think you might like it go and buy it, if you don't, I'm not bothered, I like it, I think I might fall in love with it over the next weekI think I might be already in love with it... you know what loves like, I hope, that sudden rush
Summer Cats have that all over it.
x
Posted by a fog of ideas in the UK. Read the Blog here
Labels: Slumberland, The Summer Cats
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Fickin' Spit Review
Playing off their highly successful signing of The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Slumberland Records followed themselves up with an addition of another sparky upstart group Summer Cats. The groups debut, Songs For Tuesdays displays their earnest ambition with a constant array of guitar heavy twee pop that pays tribute to 90's heyday indie pop originators. Remind you of anybody yet, hint: I've already mentioned them in this revue. After a few seconds of the record, it's quite clear that these guys are essentially The Pains of Being Pure At Heart junior and for what that's worth, Slumberland sure has a type. What distincts them from the latter is that Summer Cats focus more on rough guitar feedback (take this lightly, they're no Sonic Youth) rather than the harmonically complementary scuzz of TPOBPAH. If anything, Summer Cats make you appreciate them more so. Still, Songs For Tuesday while it gets better with each listen is ultimately a roller coaster of highs and lows as it reaches for the skies while still looking for cheap ways out leaving everyone with a nostalgia that no one has, but should.mp3 Summer Cats - In June <[Best of 2009]mp3 Summer Cats - Paperweight
Review here
Listen, Dammit!
Australia’s Summer Cats full of winsome, peppy songs on ‘Songs for Tuesdays’July 16th, 2009.
Leadoff tracks are like first dates — chances for artists to gussy themselves up and win us over with the best parts of their personalities. Summer Cats arrive at the front door ruffled yet lovable, clutching droopy bouquets and wailing away on fuzzy guitars and a vintage organ on “Let’s Go!” the first tune from “Songs for Tuesdays” (Slumberland), the Australian band’s debut. The sound is pure pop, even with its scruffy bursts of distortion.
Having made an excellent first impression, the Cats use the next 12 songs to seal the deal, offering up plenty of Beach Boys harmonies, girl-group melodies, and mangy guitar jangle, all Slumberland hallmarks. The tunes are relentlessly peppy, and even when the band members suffer heartbreak, as on “Maybe Pile,” they refuse to rule out the possibility a happy ending. “If I’m not worth your while,” bassist Hugh Owen sings, “tuck me on the maybe pile.”
“In June,” which stretches the heart-tugging bridge from the Go-Go’s’ “Our Lips are Sealed” into an entire song, is perhaps this summer’s most perfect pop nugget. Then, a strong case might also be made for “Wild Rice,” or “Fulton Girls” or even “St. Tropez,” which finds the Cats wishing they were at the beach, enjoying some fun in the sun.
For a comparable experience, they might try blasting their own record.
— Kenneth Partridge from Listen dammit
And here we go with a less exciting review..
Oh well.. they didn't like it, Can't please everyone!
http://strangeglue.com/reviews/summer-cats-songs-for-tuesdays
Linout - Sacaramento Gig!
Gig in Sacaramento in their online paper... sorry about this jumping around with the timeline! ..
Chewing Gum for the Ears
Thursday, July 16, 2009
From Australia with love: Summer Cats
Australia's Summer Cats may currently be weathering whatever sort of winter they have Down Under, but their sunny full-length debut, Songs for Tuesdays, has arrived with perfect timing here in the States. The band's name is appropriate for their upbeat style, fitting somewhere between the spastic pop attitude of Los Campesinos and the noisy rock of bands like label mates Pains of Being Pure at Heart. The group's boy/girl harmonies and love of melodic hooks makes the 32 minutes of their debut a simple, direct, and - best of all - fun pop record as effortlessly entertaining as anything you're likely to hear this summer.
Songs like "Hey You, It's Me (Oh My)" and "Camel Cords" follow a recipe of raw guitars, driving keys, and pounding drums while main man Scott Stevens sings/shouts his way through the tunes with a sort of infectious exuberance that's quite winning. The 'mid-fi' sound walks the line between retro-pop accessibility and recent noise trends well, channeling the energy of classic garage pop and adding the band's own twist in the process. Most of the songs only last about two and a half minutes, with only the breezy "Wild Rice" crossing the three minute threshold, causing the 13 tracks to fly by quickly. The brevity is welcome given the sheer amount of musical sugar packed into each tune, and Songs for Tuesdays is enjoyably frantic without going overboard. Also, the band mixes up the tempo and song structures enough to keep things light and occasionally unexpected.
by Chris Nowling
Provo, Utah, United States
Check out Chris' blog here
ALL MUSIC GUIDE !!!!
AMG REVIEW for Songs for Tuesdays!!!
And a previous AMG review for Scratching Post...
How exciting!
And a previous AMG review for Scratching Post...
How exciting!
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