Search results for ""the cat empire""
single track, wildcardWildcard (week 26):
Wildcard (week 26):
The Cat Empire – Money Coming My Way[flag country="au"]
As a big fan of The Cat Empire, I’m really looking forward to 25 August. That date has been set for the release of the Australian band’s ninth album Where The Angels Fall. Finally, I might add, as their latest album came out in 2019. In the meantime, much has changed for the band. Most importantly, the original sextet, which was often supplemented by a horn section, was stripped down to a duo. Only founding members Felix Riebl (vocals, percussion) and Ollie McGill (keyboards, backing vocals) remained on board. However, they still enlist other musicians to help them out. This is also the case on their new single Money Coming My Way.
It’s an absolute party track with many elements that really show what The Cat Empire is all about. The track includes blitzing horns, Cuban-infused piano riffs, thumping drums and bass, and a great vocal hook. They also threw in some extra party-starting elements this time, in the form of Melbourne legends Horns Of Leroy, a string orchestra, and the 40-pice Heidelberg Wind Ensemble.
Riebl comments: “This song’s got a big tongue in cheek, and in many ways, it harks back to some of the first album antics. Who can afford the cost of living these days? Everything is so expensive! Really, we just wanted to have some fun with this one. After that, we added some crazier details. (…) There’s a part where our producer Andy Baldwin acts out the part of a NYC police officer on the squad car radio announcing a robbery which happened spontaneously and caused raucous late night studio laughter.”
Money Coming My Way by The Cat Empire is the new Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. That means it’ll be featured prominently at the top of the blog for a whole week.
Recommended as well:
Into The Night
Follow The Cat Empire on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Spotify
In the Wildcards 2023 playlist you’ll find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.
single track
The Cat Empire – Into The Night[flag country="au"]
With their cocktail of jazz, ska, funk, rock and Latin music, Australian outfit The Cat Empire creates a unique sound. A sound, as you can imagine, that brings down the roof when played live. Especially with six musicians on stage, often supplemented by a horn section. That’s The Cat Empire as we’ve known it for the past 20 years, but things are going to change. This line-up will play another three final concerts, and then, founding members Felix Riebl (vocals/percussion) and Ollie McGill (keyboards/backing vocals) will continue the band in a new form. ‘With a re-imagined, vibrant, cross-cultural, and joyful collective of musicians and artists’, as they say themselves. New music is planned for 2022. Hopefully they’ll keep the musical mix intact.
Ahead of this drastic change, the band released six farewell songs. The two last ones, Sparrow and Into The Night are out now. I like the latter best. It’s got that wonderful live energy you’ll remember if you ever attended one of the band’s gigs.
Riebl says about it: “I guess it’s an unashamed fist in the air anthem that celebrates the exuberance and live music and coming together and sharing germs and spreading an infecting love and just being in that space where you can let loose whether that’s at a live show, your living rooms or wherever you are. (…) I won’t hide the fact that this is a nostalgic song. It’s about looking back and realising that you made all sorts of mistakes, but if you can be together on one night, then there’s cause to celebrate music, and that’s all.”
Follow The Cat Empire on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Spotify
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
playlist
Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 31)[flag country="##"]
Not all, but only the *best* new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- The Bamboos – Ex-Files
funk | indie | pop | soul - The Cat Empire – Owl indie | pop
- Dylan (feat. Bastille) – Liar, Liar
electronic | pop - Giant Rooks – Somebody Like You
pop | rock - Holy Holy feat. Sumner – Ready electronic | pop
- Miles Kane – One Man Band indie | pop | rock
- Jamie Lawson (feat. Laky) – Napoleon Dynamite pop
- Leith – Good Time
indie | pop | rock - Molly Millington – Foreign Accent indie | pop | rock
- Sunny Luwe – I Got A Thing For You indie | pop
- Nadia Sheikh – Don’t Give It Up
indie | pop | rock - Slo Cheetah – Loner indie | rock
- Janelle Sy’mone – Good Girl
indie | pop | r&b | soul - Kate Westwood – Hollywood indie | pop | rock
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
Follow (click ‘♥’) to hear the best new music first.
werner's weekly
Werner’s Weekly (week 28)[flag country="##"]
This is Werner’s Weekly, your guide to the best new music, containing the two most recent Carte Blanche Music Wildcards, and the best of the other new releases in alphabetical order:
- Goodnight Sunrise – This Is Yours (To Make) (Wildcard this week)
- The Cat Empire – Money Coming My Way (Wildcard last week)
- Altered By Mom – Gwendolyn
- Another Sky – A Feeling
- Barry Can’t Swim – Dance Of The Crab
- Andrea Grau – Otro Verano Sin Verte
- morgxn – Young And In Love
Listen to each of the tracks via the Werner’s Weekly player below.
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
werner's weekly
Werner’s Weekly (week 27)[flag country="##"]
This is Werner’s Weekly, your guide to the best new music, containing the two most recent Carte Blanche Music Wildcards, and the best of the other new releases in alphabetical order:
- The Cat Empire – Money Coming My Way (Wildcard this week)
- Lily Moore – Summer (Wildcard last week)
- Dead Anyway – Crocodiles
- Georgia Gets By – Easier To Run
- Päter – Four Walls
- Olivia Rodrigo – Vampire
- Vistas – I Know I Know
Listen to each of the tracks via the Werner’s Weekly player below.
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
playlist
Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 25)[flag country="##"]
Not all, but only the *best* new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Aurora Silvana Estrada – Cure For Me [Live]
pop - The Cat Empire – Money Coming My Way indie | pop | rock
- Nena Daconte feat. Carlos Jean – Vacaciones De Verano indie | pop | rock
- Charlotte Lawrence – Boys Like You pop
- Louis The Child with Claire Rosinkranz – Walls electronic | pop
- Luka – When You’re Drunk
indie | pop - Lewis OfMan feat. Empress Of – Highway
indie | pop | rock - Peach Cooler – You Talk Too Much indie | pop | rock
- Grace Potter – Good Time funk | indie | pop | soul
- Soup & Cigarettes – British Summertime indie | pop | rock
- Ed Struijlaart – Move On
indie | pop | rock
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
Follow (click ‘♥’) to hear the best new music first.
werner's weekly
Werner’s Weekly (week 14)[flag country="##"]
This is Werner’s Weekly, your guide to the best new music, containing the two most recent Carte Blanche Music Wildcards, and the best of the other new releases in alphabetical order:
- Jesse Hite – How Did I (Wildcard this week)
- Dande & The Lion – Children Of The Hour (Wildcard last week)
- The Cat Empire – Thunder Rumbles
- Deadletter – The Snitching Hour
- Notchyy feat. Jess Pink – U&I
- psychosurfer – Waves That Kill
- The Ramona Flowers – Enter The Room
Listen to each of the tracks via the Werner’s Weekly player below.
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
playlist
Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 13)[flag country="##"]
Not all, but only the *best* new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Sahara Beck – Hunter electronic | indie | pop
- Louise Burns – Bloom indie | pop
- The Cat Empire – Thunder Rumbles indie | latin | pop
- Deadletter – The Snitching Hour indie | pop | rock
- Glob – Gaffer Tape indie | pop | rock
- Lottie Gray – Get Lost indie | pop | rock
- Kingdom Calm – In My Mind indie | rock
- Alex Lahey – They Wouldn’t Let Me In indie | rock
- Francesca Luker – Nobody Seems indie | pop
- Notchyy feat. Jess Pink – U&I electronic | indie | pop
- Parker Fans – Bricks indie | pop | rock
- psychosurfer – Waves That Kill indie | pop | rock
- The Ramona Flowers – Enter The Room indie | pop
- Tillie – Bless Ur Heart indie | pop | rock
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
Follow (click ‘♥’) to hear the best new music first.
werner's weekly
Werner’s Weekly (week 41)
This is Werner’s Weekly, your compass to the music that matters, containing the two most recent Carte Blanche Music Wildcards, and the best of the other new releases in alphabetical order:
- Youth Sector – Self Exile (Wildcard this week)
- Foxes – Sister Ray (Wildcard last week)
- David Bowie – You’ve Got A Habit Of Leaving [2000 Version]
- IndyAnna Baby feat. Amy Shark – I’m Not Giving Up
- Julie Zenatti – France Et Jojo
- Paloma – Fever
- The Cat Empire – Into The Night
Click the links for more info and listen to each of the tracks via the Werner’s Weekly player below.
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist. Also added last week: Richard Ashcroft, Tears For Fears, We Are Scientists, and more.
single track
Felix Riebl – White Walls[flag country="au"]
The Cat Empire frontman Felix Riebl’s new solo EP is titled Black Room White Walls. No wonder, then, that its first single Black Room is now followed by the track White Walls.
The five-track EP was recorded over several years between New York and Melbourne. But due to an intense touring schedule with The Cat Empire and the release of their latest album he hadn’t had the opportunity to put it out yet. Then, COVID-19 struck and only four shows into their European tour, The Cat Empire rushed home. Just in time to escape the European lock-down. This gave Riebl enough time to prepare the EP’s release.
Don’t expect anything near the Cat Empire sound though. Other than his band’s fusion of latin, ska and funk, his solo tracks are darker and guitar-based with big choruses. The banging rockers combine elements of New Order and Coldplay, while Russian composer Rachmaninoff and Pink Floyd were influences as well.
“There’s an angst to it”, Felix Riebl says about White Walls. “A real dark energy in there, but in the anthemic chorus I feel that it is positive.”
The EP is set to be followed with a full-length album next year.
Recommended as well:
Felix Riebl – Black Room
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
