The Cat's Miaow - Climb My Stairs 92-94 only 100 made Daydream label
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Founded by Australian indie mainstays Bart Cummings (Girl Of The World) and Andrew Withycombe (The Ampersands) the band recruited friends Kerrie Bolton as vocalist and Cameron Smith as drummer. The four quickly amassed a pile of songs that they released on tapes between ‘90–’93 and on a volley of 7-inch singles and split-releases in the years after (including a flexi-disc with Stereolab, already a big deal and – bluntly – phoning it in a bit on that particular record) before quietly fading out of existence.
This compilation is mostly culled from those later releases, with a smattering of cuts from 1993’s How Did Everything Get So Fucked Up for good measure. The sound is rough and ready throughout, thick with the bleary-eyed, hayfever fuzz of old four-track recordings. But while The Cat’s Miaow’s recording methods were primitive, there’s real magic here. These eighteen short songs are bursting with melodic ideas, interesting sonic textures and always a gorgeous vocal from Bolton.
Reference points abound. Galaxie 500 are a clear influence. Various members of the Sarah Records roster are recognisable contemporaries. The Pastels, too. The Cat’s Miaow honed their sound to perfection. Bolton, especially, seemed to have an instinctive knack for conveying sad-eyed heartbreak on tracks like ‘Stay’, the immaculate, forty-five-second long ‘I Can’t Sleep Thinking You Hate Me’ and the numb self-loathing of opener ‘Hollow Inside’.
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