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THE CAT EMPIRE - Two Shoes
| Silent Urpoar | | My brother just got back from living in Canberra, Australia for six months. There are many things he liked about being Down Under but he couldn’t stop raving about The Cat Empire. “They’re just so fun. They love making good ol’ party music.” Right you are, dear brother. “The Car Song” is a zippy little tune. “Sol y Sombra” starts off with simple piano before blossoming into the kind of tune you’d dance to with your wife while on vacation in Honduras somewhere, perhaps at a street plaza café where stars are twinkling above and, far off in the hills, you hear cows lowing....full text |
| | Popmatters | | I heard the Cat Empire for the first time while sitting in a hotel room on the Gold Coast north of Brisbane, Australia in December 2003. I was watching the Boxing Day test match, trying to sort out the rules of cricket while relieving an overwhelming case of jet lag with a couple bottles of Victoria Bitter (called “VB stubbies” by the locals)....full text |
| | PrefixMag | | It's hard not to root for the Cat Empire. On its second full-length, Two Shoes, the guitar-less six-piece from Australia translates the frenetic genre-blending energy of its live show to disc, losing little in the translation. Though the lyrics mimic the wordiness of G. Love and often veer into the self-referential territory of, say, late-'90s 311 ("Party Started"), the real focus-and strength-is the music. "The Chariot" mixes a streamlined reggae verse with an emphatic brass-section chorus: dorm-room-ready party music. ...full text |
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