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The Cat Empire - The Cat Empire
If there was a balance between intensity and mellow this Aussie group has the tones and beats to wow. There is a bit of salsa influence, ears appreciate the use of classic instruments.
The songs roll through nights out and days inside the mind. They don’t shy from moral exploration that mimic the confusion and passion in youth. So the ability to relate is easy.
This album found me when I was in the middle of a intense transition thanks to happening upon it with a friend. It resounded in me and still does.
The third track of the album, The Lost Song, goes…
”I had a plan but never finished it and I’ve been searching for the thought and I’ve been searching in a haze I try all days to remember it but now the blueprint in my mind is gone my mind forgot the color of direction and my eyes they see the hands that could have built that coulda constructed the empire in my mind, the empire I’ll never find, I had a plan but that was where it ended.”
The urges to…
booze it up
celebrate
save
stand up
fight
cry
question
sex up a situation
settle down
be loud
be quiet
Much like this album, we can experience it all in one day. We wish we knew the answer to control it. This album helps me stop and embrace it. Take some time and listen to these songs, maybe everything happening at once can be just as fun as this album.
It is hard to define your own empire after you have lost it to the transition that happened yesterday, the day before, and etc.
