The Cat Empire > Cinema

kuliwil · Post by **kuliwil** » Sun Jun 27, 2010 7:08

It's their new album - came out last week.

My sister got it by mail order straight from the band so I've had a few days to get to know it

It's rather good! There's nothing like In The Darkness Live from Live on Earth, but all up it's a pretty good album!

I do miss tracks like Beanie though, but this is pretty cool.

Somewhere on YouTube there is the clip for "Feeling's Gone" - that is an excellent song! I'll hunt it down......

Do people here know The Cat Empire or Jackson Jackson?

Grimson · Post by **Grimson** » Sun Jun 27, 2010 7:13

Never heard of it, sorry

kuliwil · Post by **kuliwil** » Sun Jun 27, 2010 7:18

Quite understandable - The Cat Empire is an Australian band with large orchestra and brass sections, so they probably don't get much air play anywhere! They are fairly well know here.

Jackson Jackson is its less-well-known cousin; most of JJ is from the Empire. Here's a Jackson Jackson song that made it rather big here, it's called "All Alone": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a-iTL54Iss
That's from their second album - their first album had more of a hiphop influence in it. It wasn't hiphop, but it had some of the vocal styles in some places. I much prefer the first album.

EDIT: Nothing wrong with their second album

TerminILL · Post by **TerminILL** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 5:43

Cat Empire are pretty cool. There's a nice balance of mainstream-ish tracks and more surreal stuff like The Darkness (also the French version of Hotel California from Live on Earth is very odd). Can't say I've ever heard of Jackson Jackson, though.

wildrooster · Post by **wildrooster** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 21:30

Checked out some of their tunes and I dig. Thanks for the tip.

_mr_m_ · Post by **_mr_m_** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 14:42

This stuff works for me. Thanks for the heads-up