Three songs written and recorded in nipaluna. We acknowledge and pay respect to the muwinina people, who are the traditional owners of this land. Sovereignty was never ceded.
Hobart’s limitless minimalists The Native Cats have followed up 2018’s elliptical masterpiece LP – JOHN SHARP TORO – with a short, spiked, seven-inch epilogue – SPIRO SCRATCH. Three songs about living beyond arrival, and fighting your down ways for your own chosen causes.
For the 87 seconds of ‘Preservation Law’, singer and blow-in drummer, Chloe Alison Escott, no longer in service to the past, finally lets loose all the tension built up on John Sharp Toro, and the many years preceding it.
‘Olivia’ is a minor-key queer anthem in which Escott asserts her new place in a wider, darker world, and sets and alarm chime in an uneasy slow dance with Julian Teakle’s bass.
And the there’s ‘Metre des Archives’, a reflection on heroes and their footsteps, a drift through and asteroid field. This one is for the tall girls, but it’s for you, too, and that’s no accident.
Out 28 November on Hobart’s very own Rough Skies Records, a tower of light kept standing and shining by The Native Cats’ own, Julian Teakle, and Slag Queens’ Claire Johnston. Rough Skies has been dedicated to releasing music from the region since 2009.
supported by 25 fans who also own “Spiro Scratch EP”
I love this album. In 500 characters I can't express the emotions it evokes from me or tell of precious memories I have made with it. I'm just so immensely grateful for it. Masonthrope
supported by 20 fans who also own “Spiro Scratch EP”
Opener absolutely rips. Falls into the ranks of tracks like “Dance” by ESG, “Eisbaer” by Grauzone, “Damaged Goods” by Gang of Four or like the album description says Kleenex. This is some really good stuff. Favorite song is the opener but dedicate “Blue” to my friend Blue who lost her life at 22, she would have loved this album. TheBloodofChrist