Catcall - The warmest place
On
this album, Sydney's Catcall (Catherine Kelleher) puts aside her earlier work
with hip hop for a focus on polished pop and the results are outstanding. After
the short intro of The Warmest Place, a line referenced in the album's superb
opener, August. It takes no more than a looping organ line with big stomping
beats for her to pull an amazing track out of almost nothing. Satellites
follows immediately – it's an Empire Of The Sun-style indie dancefloor classic
waiting to happen and steers away from some of the more '80s pop sounds that
populate the record. These moments can be found most obviously on first single,
The World Is Ours, the unashamed pop of That Girl and Shoulda Been, or on the
slower electro ballad, Swimming Pool. But there are more moments where she
displays a more refrained approach to slower-burning hooks like on August, such
as on I Believed and the Europop-flavoured I'm In Love With A German Film Star.
A long-time coming it may have been, but Catcall's debut is a rich treasure
trove of intelligent pop.
CD, case and booklet in excellent condition. See photos for details and track listing.
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