"outside the room where you died..."
I can, without embarrassment, admit that I have listened to Trauma Cat's midnight movie "Freaks With Wings" multiple times and still can't fully figure out exactly what I saw, I mean, heard. And their lies the absolute pull. The song tells a story and churns the subversive tale with a kind of blend of doo wop punk, art rock (with glam written on the wall in bright red lipstick), alternative rock turns and even something that feels very like dark musical theater, like way, way off Broadway. Loving the musical choices, the twists and turns and the artful vocal aesthetic spouting lyrics that turn on such evocative lines :
A flock of school kids forms around a flagpole in prayer
Thinking about their rights
Asking that their god make them a pretty prom night
That doesn’t stop the wasp’s assault
Swoops down onto the shoulder of some unsuspecting psalm
Singing, “I belong here, too!”
Leaves his stinger there and flies from the invisible pew"
And that is just the beginning of the story.
Trauma Cat are an "independent power trio based in the post-industrial hellscape" of Syracuse, New York, USA, comprising Ralph Kojig (guitar and vocals), Roman Pando (bass and vocals), and Rutger DiBoyere (drums).
Trauma Cat are an "independent power trio based in the post-industrial hellscape" of Syracuse, New York, USA, comprising Ralph Kojig (guitar and vocals), Roman Pando (bass and vocals), and Rutger DiBoyere (drums).
I will be delving in further. Yes, I sure will be.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Trauma Cat are an independent power trio based in the post-industrial hellscape of Syracuse, New York, USA, comprising Ralph Kojig (guitar and vocals), Roman Pando (bass and vocals), and Rutger DiBoyere (drums).
Though critics speculate on the band's true origin and the meaning of their existence, Trauma Cat are widely credited as the founders of "cuck rock," an indeterminate school of music indebted to incessant apology and shameless cross-genre appropriation. Others have described Trauma Cat's sound as "uncomfortable art rock," and their politics as "alt-wrong."
In October 2020, Trauma Cat released two singles, "Drunk Shark" and "Nostradamus." Then, in November 2020, the band followed up with "Joshua," the first single off their debut full-length record, "Prepare to Apologize," due in early 2021. Some press is already heralding the 15-track epic as "insufferable," "disorienting," and "a progressive, well-conceived, and downright moving masterpiece of outsider pop."
spotify
bandcamp
Trauma Cat are an independent power trio based in the post-industrial hellscape of Syracuse, New York, USA, comprising Ralph Kojig (guitar and vocals), Roman Pando (bass and vocals), and Rutger DiBoyere (drums).
Though critics speculate on the band's true origin and the meaning of their existence, Trauma Cat are widely credited as the founders of "cuck rock," an indeterminate school of music indebted to incessant apology and shameless cross-genre appropriation. Others have described Trauma Cat's sound as "uncomfortable art rock," and their politics as "alt-wrong."
In October 2020, Trauma Cat released two singles, "Drunk Shark" and "Nostradamus." Then, in November 2020, the band followed up with "Joshua," the first single off their debut full-length record, "Prepare to Apologize," due in early 2021. Some press is already heralding the 15-track epic as "insufferable," "disorienting," and "a progressive, well-conceived, and downright moving masterpiece of outsider pop."
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