Emergent / 92e
2005
Cats & Kittens
About This Album
In the recessionary climate of the music business of 2005, record companies scrambled to add value to CD packages. Not only were old albums reissued in "deluxe" versions with as much as another full CD of unreleased material, but major artists took to issuing first-time releases with extra takes and video content. In such an environment, why shouldn't an indie band join in? De Novo Dahl, hailing from the college town of Murfreesboro, TN, near Nashville, previously has released only a six-song self-titled EP, but Cats & Kittens, the group's first full-length album, is actually much more than full-length. Cats, if you will, is a 16-track CD, while its counterpart, Kittens, contains the same 16 songs "remixed," as the press release puts it. Of course, these days a remix is anything but a mere re-manipulation of the faders on the studio soundboard, and these remixes are really entirely different versions of the songs with radically different arrangements. To take the material in order, the Cats disc presents a band that seems to have ingested decades' worth of British pop/rock music, specifically the '60s and the '70s. The lighter sides of the Beatles and the Kinks from the '60s are echoed in the music, but even more evident is the influence of '70s U.
Track List

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