Kitten Kast # 186 (right click, save as)
Hey kids, here's a selection of Spider Kitten tunes from about 2005 onwards. It's not meant to be a best of or anything like that, just a selection. A taster of our back catalogue, if you will. It's almost impossible to represent even an album with a few songs, let alone the whole band, as we tend to mix it up a bit where style is concerned. If you like any of the stuff you hear then there's probably other stuff in our back catalogue that sounds like it. If you hate it all then there's probably very different stuff you'll also hate lurking there. As ever, share it round amongst your friends/enemies and spread the word. We're about to start recording a brand new album that will probably be out at the end of the year. It's exciting, and doesn't really sound that much like anything on this mix, but we hope you'll listen to it anyway. Thanks for caring
Chi
Burdened
This is off our most recent album, Cougar Club. It's the only tune on this mix to feature Chris West on drums. We'd recorded this song before in 2009 with a drum machine and when Chris joined it seemed a good one to start him off on. We liked the new version so much we rerecorded it and put it on Cougar Club. Me and Oram play all the rhythm guitars and Rob does the solos. It features a Judy Garland sample. True story.
Right Back At You
This is from the Dead Beat EP from 2007. We knocked it up in about 2 days including mixing.
Danger
This is from Future Echos, from 2008. It's supposed to be an attempt at Hard Rock or something. If I remember rightly, our friend Rmz programmed the drums for this. Al does a great bass part in the middle.
Safety
Also from Future Echos, it came straight after Danger on the album. This is Twan on guitar and me singing. We recorded this while he was tripping. He didn't drop acid in order to maximise his creativity or anything, I just needed him to record his part and he happened to be tripping. It's kind of Cohenesque. I like it.
Pray It All Goes Away
This is from the Rats From A Sinking Ship EP from 2009. Twan left the band and moved to Bristol and it seemed like the end of SK was nigh. I was in a real bad place mentally and everything was turning to shit. I still find it hard to listen to this. It's mostly about panic attacks and agoraphobia. Cheery.
Spitting Misery Through Black Teeth
From our first physical release, Ineffable from 2005. We recorded this entire album in the living room of the flat I shared with ptew. It was filthy and crammed with equipment, cats, overflowing ashtrays and empty takeaway cartons. Al joined the band the day before we recorded his parts. He'd been on tour with No Fit State Circus, playing in the house band and was pretty fried. He listened to each song a few times and then played each part first take. ptew programmed the drums and they're awesome. A really strange beat.
Localized Loss Of Ambition
Dumb Shit.
Lounge Act
I'm a huge Nirvana fan. They were the first band I got into that made me want to start a band. I was already really into Pink Floyd, but I never thought for a minute I could ever play anything like that myself. Nirvana seemed achievable. We did two virtual 7"s of Nirvana covers, one with two tracks from Nevermind, called Driven Men, and one with two tracks from In Utero, called Routine. Anagrams, bitches.
Time Takes Its Toll
Also from Cougar Club. We needed an acoustic tune so I recorded this by myself in my front room. It's pretty sad actually. Features a Bukowski sample.
Sorefoot Blues
A B side from the original release of Burdened. I think it's half a Robert Johnson song. We should do more blues. We were a three piece by this time. I did the backwards solo. I don't think ptew is on this.
This Pointless Exercise
Another from the Rats...EP. I think it's about how I felt about the band at the time. I pretty much thought this was gonna be the last thing we ever put out. But (un)luckily we just plodded on and kept churning the shit out. Al programmed the drums. Actually, we totally wrote this whole thing as we were recording it. Drums first, then bass, then guitar, then vocals.
Brother
Blasphemy really, I know. Al plays all the guitars on this including the solo.
Bilirubin Blues
Another one from Future Echos. Kind of a macho Hard Rock thing going on here. I'm not sure what we were thinking. It's pretty silly, but not without its charm.
Semi Auto Construct
The line up for this one is Oram on guitars, Al on bass and me on vocals and bongos. We had a super chill recording session with Oram and this reworking of a really heavy tune off Future Echos was one of the results. Super stoned 70s vibez.
Paper Cuts
Another Nirvana cover. If you ever thought the Fecal Matter demo was a bit too nice sounding, then this is the tune for you. I used a horrible early 80s Westone guitar and it made the most disgusting feedback. The recording doesn't really do justice to how fucking nasty this thing sounded. Anyway, I like this. All music should sound like this.
Moanin' The Blues
From our Christmas EP, To Let The Winter In. I always think throwing in a Hank Williams cover shows real class. That's what we're doing here: showing some class. I love Swans and Nick Cave and Cohen and so I really enjoy doing this kind of stuff. Fun Fact: I smoked a huge cigar as I was recording the vocals because it helped me get the dryness I wanted in my voice and also because I like huge cigars.
Ineffable
The last track on the album of the same name. Twan plays a Gu Qin at the beginning. It's cool. At the end of the track you can hear what suburban Cardiff sounds like at 2pm in the summer. Al's bassline makes this song. If there's a clever melody going on it's usually him doing it. The song is about the rapture, either that or overdosing in a squat.
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