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CATFISH HAVEN - Tell Me
| StylusMagazine | Jimmy Rabbitte said it best: “Soul is the music people understand.”
“There's no fuckin' bullshit,” he added. “It sticks its neck out and says it straight from the heart.” Maybe Rabbitte isn’t the best person to ask, being a fictional character and all, but as the maladjusted manager of The Commitments in the 1991 film of the same name, he was aware of the effect soul music has on us humans....full text |
| | Harmonium | After the promising release of their debut EP Please Come Back, this Chicago trio has come back with their proper full length, Tell Me, introducing even more soul and gospel elements into their sound, and even a little horn.
The album’s loose, jam session type feel is evident from the very get go as the 2 minute 15 second opener “I Don’t Worry” shows. Its shuffling melody is turned up a notch at the very end and together with the backing vocals the track ends up feeling like a Sunday at the church of Catfish Haven....full text |
| | PitchFork | | Last year, Chicago's Catfish Haven made a fine official debut with their Please Come Back EP. Pumping the energy of their punk rock youths into velvety white-boy soul and acoustic roots-rock, and with a raucous rhythm section chugging away beneath George Hunter's mellifluous howl, they managed to skirt snooty trad and revisionist indie pretensions alike by doing something obvious: charging passionately through emphatic melodies with strictly defined instrumentation. It's a simple formula they retain for their debut LP, Tell Me, which suffers from periods of drag that were absent from the tightly coiled Please Come Back....full text |
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