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Although they’re fairly severe about their craft, the 4 members of Unbelievable Cat favor to maintain it mild relating to packaging and presentation. Current press releases and band bios are as self-effacingly hilarious as they’re basically ineffective. And the outsized cat masks that present up on album covers and in movies and publicity pictures solely add to the good-natured weirdness.
Unbelievable Cat’s Anthony D’Amato, Mike Montali, Don DiLego and Brian Dunne are all completed singer/songwriters in their very own proper. And whereas there’s a faint essence of Golden Smog to their ad-hoc pooling of assets, they sound extra like an precise band than that Minneapolis-based supergroup aspect undertaking ever did.
“Unbelievable Cat is a real democracy,” says Dunne. “Everybody within the band is the lead singer and due to this fact legally accountable ought to the band get sued—and this band will certainly get sued in some unspecified time in the future.”
A lot for getting a straight reply. This a lot we do know: The group’s second album, Now That’s What I Name Unbelievable Cat, is out June 7 by way of Lacking Piece Information. Produced by DiLego at his Velvet Elk Studios in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains and varied places in Brooklyn, it options notable visitor appearances by Adam Duritz (Counting Crows) and James Felice (Felice Brothers). It additionally has a surplus of implausible moments, together with “Later On,” which started life in Dunne’s rehearsal house.
“The verses are grounded in existential worries and musings, the choruses a declaration of religion in human connection,” says Dunne. “It was a young ballad, however I didn’t deliver it to the band till I heard a music Don and Anthony had been engaged on with related chords. That impressed me to rethink it as a barely heavier, up-tempo music.”
Dunne additionally acknowledges Unbelievable Cat’s apparent debt to the Band. “When (Rick) Danko and (Richard) Manuel are each singing lead, you possibly can’t inform which one is doing what,” says Dunne. “Mike and I made a decision to sing ‘Later On’ collectively, and Anthony and Don crammed out the coda with their call-and-response vocals. Don arrange the mics at his studio, we hit document, and we received this one down in a number of takes.”
Very similar to every thing else with Unbelievable Cat, the video for “Later On” is a homespun affair. “We shot it ourselves on our tour of the U.S. and Canada,” says Dunne. “It performs out as a travelogue of kinds, and it’s in all probability the sincerest factor we’ve executed to this point. Don’t get used to it.”
We’re proud to premiere Unbelievable Cat’s “Later On” video.
—Hobart Rowland
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