My Cat Drinks Tap Water are a noisy lot of young men from Queensland, Australia. They make hardcore-ish electronic-ish lo-fi music and, obviously, have an acute sense of subtle observational humor (my cat usually washes down his cheezburger with tap water too).
My Cat Drinks Tap Water, or MCDTW—for usability purposes—have captured a sound similar to FOALS, Fake Shark—Real Zombie and the late great Test-Icicles. I said to myself when I discovered this band, hey this sounds like such-and-such”. Only to discover that that’s the first three of their self-declared influences. Uncanny. Maybe a little semblance of The Blood Brothers to boot.
They’re low production value, but sometimes that just fits. This is a diamond in the rough, unearthed, I imagine, on a four-track in a garage, upside-down, in Australia. A diamond is a diamond, polished or dirty. Screaming, rapping, cowbells, distortion pedals, bleeps & bips—enjoy.
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MP3: My Cat Drinks Tap Water – Blood-Stained Plastic Fittings (2009)
[ 4mb | 225kbps vbr | 2:12 | Genre: Dance-Hardcore ]
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MP3: My Cat Drinks Tap Water – Grhyme (2009)
[ 9mb | 229kbps vbr | 5:48 | Genre: Dance-Hardcore ]
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MP3: My Cat Drinks Tap Water – SHIPZ!!! (2009)
[ 13mb | 219kbps vbr | 8:03 | Genre: Dance-Hardcore ]
Hopefully, their cat drinks tap water like this, ’cause it’s amazing, like the band. They’re unsigned and recently released “The Burning Horse EP” themselves, which the tracks above are culled from. The band says they have shirts for sale, someday, maybe. Direct all questions to mcdtw@myspace.com.
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