Catcall
Track: Swimming Pool
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There’s so much sex in this track. From the rumbling synth bass and palm-muted guitar opening to Catherine Kelleher’s softcore imagery: goose bumps, hard nipples and, ahem, a storm that’s coming. The first taste of her forthcoming debut album reveals yet another side to Kelleher, who’s so far dabbled in bratty teen post-punk with Kiosk and indie-hop ala M.I.A/Macromantics (last year’s ‘Bad Move Baby’ single and her debut Anniversary EP). She’s found her niche here though, in slinky ’80s pop, the kind of stuff she probably danced around to as a kid with legwarmers and a side ponytail. The groove here is key, aided and abetted by cascading disco synths and funkified guitar. “This is for my body,” she sings in the chorus. It’s enough to make a grown man weak at the knees.
(There’s a sub 10-minute remix of this track floating around by a guy called Julian Mendelsohn, an old-school ’80s remixer who’s worked with the likes of Frankie Goes To Hollywood and Pet Shop Boys. It emphasises atmosphere over punch, but is still worth tracking down.)
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finally i hear the original! thanks m+n. when/where can i buy?
iTunes is selling it.
it's hot off the press anok. not sure if this is out yet.
what about vinyl? me wanna
the remix is pretty true to the orig, hey. more emphasis on the (brilliant) bassline, perhaps. which i thought was a bass guitar, not a synth.
my fav local track of the year. love the release of the ''this is for my body'' line on the chorus.
Yeah, I was scared the Mendelsohn remix was a huge reworking but the original has the same vibe. I agree it's the best track of the year. 100%
The music reminds me of Kate Bush's 'Running up that hill'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuLlwUaEyr0
It's the pre chorus to chorus.
Very similar
IMO.
It's good.
I prefer the M.I.A style stuff she's done though.
it's really well done mid-to-slow-paced pop. relaxed, but delivered with authority. in the post-italians do it better era/nu-disco world there are a million tracks with similarly arranged synths, but the arrangement here is spot on. so good!
kinda makes me want to listen to down-tempo madonna. justify my love.
i got bored with grinderman and listened to this. really dig it. who would have thought in the 80s that the future would have really ended up sounding like we thought it would in the 80s.
Amazing song. Amazing!
Yes - great song. This lady's persistence has payed off. (paid? Raven?)
nick cave wishes he was catherine.
Yep, so many types of awesome
I think there's longing, not sex, in this track. It's quite a melancholy piece.
I'm Talking were trying to do this 25 years ago, although they never would have produced the vocal so implicitly.
Pretty good. On Ivy League, too.
the best
I'm sorry, but.. what?
love the synths..yeah how it takes me back.
Meant explicitly. Happy?
Not happy, not sad. Even keel.
Well, at least you don't fuck the site up anymore. Good for even keel.
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Gloves
This song is fucking ace, i don't give a fuck what decade it was made.
Yama from Damn Arms
kinda great how warm + fuzzy this thread is.
catcall brings the positive vibes. i'm excited about the melb launch
I said this. It's true. I've rarely encountered such a pleasant exchange of positivity toward a piece of music on m+n. Except for those threads where it's just friends stroking each others egos...
This is real!
I guess every now and then someone makes a fucking good song, it deserves love.
I did say here I hate her old school hip hop/Peaches/ironic retro music when I saw her opened for The Gossips but I like this song.
Launch tonight at NSC. I feel a bit embarrassed to say that I have weird flutters of excitement in my chest when I think of this song!
Slightly unusual launch tonight. I enjoyed it but man, that was not really what I expected. Angie Bermuda (of Circle Pit infamy) was playing bass, but she's very much a rock bassist... so half the time I couldn't really hear what she was doing. In a lot of ways the backing track had the real bass hooks anyway in songs where it mattered - maybe she should play guitar instead. She's a really capable guitarist and it would cut through a bit more. The drummer seemed pretty wasted.
Synth player was by far my favourite member of the backing band even though she spent too much of the set playing tambourine. I thought it was a good show but playing drums along to a backing track is quite weird and in many ways very Sydney... it was muddy a lot of the time. That said I still really enjoyed myself and danced a bit and got one of the free 12'' singles they were giving out (I would totally pay for it too, such an incredible song). I think it's really hard to get music like this right in a live context, and this was probably a good starting point to refine. I tried to find the band after the show to tell them I loved their single and was chuffed to see them play, but I couldn't find them. They were probably up in the band room having party times.
i got a free 12'' too, how nice of them. catcall is so good. indie crowds need to loosen up a bit though
Did she play stuff off the EP?
Don't know because I don't have it!
Cool. Just wondering if she's got a whole set worth of new material or not.
Was the EP 'dance' or was it 'hip hop'?
they played august and the song with the alife clothes in the video from the ep. maybe some more, but I think august was the best. maybe 8 songs so so I assume other newness. even though I have no beef with backing track I kinda wish more of the synths were live. swimming pool didn't seem to have any live synths.
was hoping for more shine and crispness and cleanness from the live thing. something shamelessly pop and tight with shameless mainstream aspirations. didn't get it, but still love you catcall!
SHMLSS
ruling!
JOY FM played this track today.
I'm impressed.
if this is getting TOTY2010 shout outs.. i'm curious enough to listen
it will probably get stuck in my head, but first listen, not feeling it, i must say
reminds me of bat for lashes a bit
is that fair?
but running up that hill is way better
still, good on her, i mean...