Music CD - The Cat Empire: So Many Nights

	Music CD: So Many Nights Artist: The Cat Empire List Price: $13.98 Our Price: $9.90 Your Save: $ 4.08 ( 29% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Velour Recordings
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Tracks: 1. So Many Nights 2. Panama 3. Fishes 4. Sunny Moon 5. Til the Ocean Takes Us All 6. No Mountain 7. So Long 8. No Longer There 9. Lonely Moon 10. Radio Song 11. The Darkness 12. Voodoo Cowboy 13. Strong Coffee 14. Won't Be Afraid 15. Wanted To Write a Love Song
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0687480080823 Label: Velour Recordings Manufacturer: Velour Recordings Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Velour Recordings Release Date: 2008-04-22 Studio: Velour Recordings
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Interesting progression Comment: Most fans (reading this review) will probably have gotten their Cat Empire fix from the Two Shoes album. I feel that Two Shoes is the backbone of The Cat Empire, in sound and musicianship. Since then, they've gotten a little more subtle. Many of the songs on "So Many Nights" seem to lack the passion that you might feel from a song like Two Shoes, The Lost Song, How to Explain, The Night That Never End, etc. The quirkiness seems to have been smoothed out somewhere, but if you're like me, then you LOVED The Cat Empire for their quirkiness. C'mon, The Car Song, In My Pocket, The Chariot, Down at the 303, etc. What we're left with is a bit of strangeness (not so much quirkiness), and an album almost full of songs similar to Luck Song from "Cities." Old fan favorites will probably be: So Many Nights, Fishies, and Till the Ocean Takes Us All. If you're a lyric-focused person, you might find quite a few good things in this album. Customer Rating: Summary: A different direction, but the same amazing quality! Comment: The Cat Empire are one of the best bands out there. All of their albums have gone platinum (some multiple) in Australia...it's criminal that they are not better known in the us. This album continues their streak of genius material. However, this time they have more laidback, smokey vibe going on for them. This album, right down to the artwork is amazing! The addition of a lot of strings on this album (particularly breathtaking on "Panama") is a welcomed new twist. This band is continuing to switch up their sound, while still keeping their unique sound. Customer Rating: Summary: What are you thinking? Comment: Whoever you are, as far as I'm concerned the cat empire is still one of the best bands ever. This album may be a lot more laid back, but the fact that they're still experimenting with their sound is always going to be an interesting manuever for the band. So therefore, I give them 5 stars for coming out with new material, and yet again exciting my ears Customer Rating: Summary: Not the same Cat Empire Comment: I positively love the Cat Empire's Two Shoes and eponymous albums. The high energy, the horns, the undefinable genre, the carefree attitudes... I loved it, and I recommend to any Cat Empire fan procuring the Australian versions of these CDs, which have several additional tracks. That said, I couldn't find much passion for this album. The title track is a fun tune that would have been a mid-energy track on Two Shoes. However, everything after that is more like John Mayer or Paul McCartney with a couple horns. It's far more sedate, maybe a decent album when you're feeling down. Search for the album art online. Black birds and blue sunset. It pretty well sums up the new sound. I'm really sad that the Cat Empire has gone in this direction. I got this CD from a friend, and for a freebie it's alright, but there's no way I'd pay fifty dollars for it, or even fifteen. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: This time around, the party throwdown that the boys pioneered on "Two Shoes" has crossed the line between mystery and light. And back. A few times. "So Many Nights," says bandleader Felix Riebl, "is filled with little vignettes from our travels, stories that got etched out in the back of a tour bus over the years. You get to a point where it really gets hard to distinguish between what's happening and what's a dream." And so the strange, colorful trip unfurls from the airborne whimsy of "Panama" to the mystifying, swirling thrill of '"The Darkness." It's all melancholy ache in "Lonely Moon," funky as hell in "So Long" and "Strong Coffee," then freaky like a spaghetti western acid trip in "Voodoo Cowboy." From David Letterman to Jay Leno appearances, the Glastonbury Festival to New York's Central Park Summerstage, Japan to Barcelona, from Bonnaroo to the Montreal Jazz Festival and rave reviews at all stops, it often seemed The Cat Empire were sole nominees for Superlative of the Year (Indefinable Genre Division) `06/'07. Like some kind of funky circus troupe, they roll into town, sell twice as many tickets as the previous visit, and a truckload of CDs on the way out. Already platinum in their native Australia, So Many Nights was recorded in Malibu, CA in April '07 by the legendary John Porter (Roxy Music, The Smiths, BB King, Ryan Adams).