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Run With The Kittens -
Myth In The Sky
Upon loading Run With The Kittens latest EP Myth In The Sky into iTunes, their genre was listed as unclassifiable, this rings fairly true, but the fifth effort of the band consisting of Nate Milk, Champagne James Robinson, Nigel Hebblewhite and Jake Olerichs touches upon some pretty familiar ground.
An attempt at showcasing growth as a group and maturity, Myth In The Sky is a five-track taste of things to come from the Toronto band. The EP starts with an instrumental track, Caledonia, that began sounding a little like the Kids In The Hall theme music, morphed into something a little rockabilly-sounding edged with synth-pop (lots of microkorg).
Next, Dog is a pretty simple song, poppy and lyrically vague, echoed vocals and a decent a cappella ending that pulls the track together. Little Fawn featuring definite interjections of bossanova and is a really mellow song altogether, slow and hypnotic with a bit of a dream-like quality and simple lyrics. But the music suggests something elusive and more ominous, around one minute it sounds like something that would be played in an opium den - this is one to really look into.
Old-Time Cell Phones features vocals by Milk that channel one of the bands inspirations, Beck. Slow, kind of sloppy, reminiscent of the tempo in Beck's Pay No Mind and filled with a sort of haze that lifts off near the end, a good song to listen to before falling asleep.
Finally, the album's title track Myth In The Sky, a jimmy and gritty song that sounds White Stripes inspired in that it has that same kind of bluesy halting tempo and calls to mind the images of dive bars and deserts. This track really has a sense of finality; around 1:15 the band goes all out with guitar solos and heavy distortion as kind of a farewell to arms.
The inspirations to this band are fairly obvious upon listening (Pixies, Beck, Tom Waits, Frank Zappa) and fans of those artists would in all likelihood enjoy stylistically what Run With The Kittens are putting out. Myth In The Sky is a hidden gem filled with experimentation and youthful energy.
For more info and some tracks: www.myspace.com/runwiththekittens
Upon loading Run With The Kittens latest EP Myth In The Sky into iTunes, their genre was listed as unclassifiable, this rings fairly true, but the fifth effort of the band consisting of Nate Milk, Champagne James Robinson, Nigel Hebblewhite and Jake Olerichs touches upon some pretty familiar ground.
An attempt at showcasing growth as a group and maturity, Myth In The Sky is a five-track taste of things to come from the Toronto band. The EP starts with an instrumental track, Caledonia, that began sounding a little like the Kids In The Hall theme music, morphed into something a little rockabilly-sounding edged with synth-pop (lots of microkorg).
Next, Dog is a pretty simple song, poppy and lyrically vague, echoed vocals and a decent a cappella ending that pulls the track together. Little Fawn featuring definite interjections of bossanova and is a really mellow song altogether, slow and hypnotic with a bit of a dream-like quality and simple lyrics. But the music suggests something elusive and more ominous, around one minute it sounds like something that would be played in an opium den - this is one to really look into.
Old-Time Cell Phones features vocals by Milk that channel one of the bands inspirations, Beck. Slow, kind of sloppy, reminiscent of the tempo in Beck's Pay No Mind and filled with a sort of haze that lifts off near the end, a good song to listen to before falling asleep.
Finally, the album's title track Myth In The Sky, a jimmy and gritty song that sounds White Stripes inspired in that it has that same kind of bluesy halting tempo and calls to mind the images of dive bars and deserts. This track really has a sense of finality; around 1:15 the band goes all out with guitar solos and heavy distortion as kind of a farewell to arms.
The inspirations to this band are fairly obvious upon listening (Pixies, Beck, Tom Waits, Frank Zappa) and fans of those artists would in all likelihood enjoy stylistically what Run With The Kittens are putting out. Myth In The Sky is a hidden gem filled with experimentation and youthful energy.
For more info and some tracks: www.myspace.com/runwiththekittens
