"you can't break free, you can't break free from it all..."
Some might argue that doing caustic sort of grunge feted post punk is easier to do than indie rock or indie pop because the sound is much more raw and feral but I disagree. Step into the dark pummeling depressive discord of "Fallen Stones" by Brooklyn based 6 piece Catcher and you feel happy masks coming off. Tapping into the black, the transmutation of what is expected into the sonic expression of what is not usually discussed in polite company is fascinating and cathartic. Catcher does this with the plodding nature of sadness and realizations about what life might have in store. The jagged guitar, dominant bottom heavy leanings, the shrill haunting electric violin that at times sounds like horns and Austin Eicher's barbiturate drip vox, pained and slurred is the stuff of 4 in the morning emotional punches when you have been up for 24 hours.
Why might you ask do you want to even swim in these dark waters? For me, the answer is complex but simply put there is a kind of truth to this kind of art that feels so much more real than a lot of indie rock and indie pop. That sometimes the façade of more happy music (the opiate of the masses) feels more terrifying.
Some might argue that doing caustic sort of grunge feted post punk is easier to do than indie rock or indie pop because the sound is much more raw and feral but I disagree. Step into the dark pummeling depressive discord of "Fallen Stones" by Brooklyn based 6 piece Catcher and you feel happy masks coming off. Tapping into the black, the transmutation of what is expected into the sonic expression of what is not usually discussed in polite company is fascinating and cathartic. Catcher does this with the plodding nature of sadness and realizations about what life might have in store. The jagged guitar, dominant bottom heavy leanings, the shrill haunting electric violin that at times sounds like horns and Austin Eicher's barbiturate drip vox, pained and slurred is the stuff of 4 in the morning emotional punches when you have been up for 24 hours.
Why might you ask do you want to even swim in these dark waters? For me, the answer is complex but simply put there is a kind of truth to this kind of art that feels so much more real than a lot of indie rock and indie pop. That sometimes the façade of more happy music (the opiate of the masses) feels more terrifying.
The band's debut LP, "The Fat of a Broken Heart" is out now.
-Robb Donker Curtius
-Robb Donker Curtius
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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/Catcher-108382174738052
https://open.spotify.com/artist/51dOgMAryMAxeTPenR5ZTB
https://www.catcherband.com/
Catcher
6-Piece
Post-Punk
from Brooklyn, NY.
We get by with a little help from our friends
Catcher, Punk, Post-Punk, Garage Rock, "Fallen Stones", debut LP "The Fat of a Broken Heart", Brooklyn, hard, cathartic, depressive, dark rock,
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