More Than a Feline

By Ash Dosanjh

THE WORD ON THE WEB

Manchester’s Cats in Paris are an experimental indie pop sensation. Their bonkers song structures are as charming as they are unpredictable. One moment you’ll be basking in sweet-sounding violins, only to be knocked sideways by glitchy keyboards and a cacophony of sporadic drums.

Debut single "Foxes" is a spacey trip in the Built to Spill and Super Furry Animals vein. The addition of Sara Beard’s high-pitched vocals dancing around those of fellow bandmate Michael J Watson ensures that this is anything but derivative. This month sees the release of their gloriously spasmodic art pop album ‘Courtcase 2000′. Twee it certainly is not.

deathtomusicblog. blogspot.com

"Cats in Paris are basically the best band in the country right now. I would be hard-pressed to think of an album I am more excited about this year than their forthcoming ‘Courtcase 2000′."

nothingbutgreenlights.net

"Dystopic, spiralling, and about as close as ‘hardcore/ experimental/folk’ could get to indie pop. ‘Foxes’ has chapters you race through, fluidity that unsettles you [and] a rhythmic anger powered through the proper channels."

gigwise.com

"Like a spiked pint of cider at a Cornish music festival, Cats in Paris are the nightmare mix of accustomed folk rock with a grim realism twist of 21st-century living. The simplicity of Cats in Paris’s music however is only likely to impress."

musicomh.com

"This ambitious debut manages to cram more ideas and inimitability than most singles released this year combined. Like Los Campesinos!, if they had the attention span to do anything longer than 120 seconds in length."

vimeo.com

"’Foxes’ is the debut single by Cats in Paris and is a thrilling baroque prog-pop epic, with punky boy girl call and response vocals and a massive arpeggiated synth riff that develops in to a beautifully complex and wonky indie pop anthem."

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