The Widow Project, by Alley Cat

The Widow Project

by Alley Cat

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Metro superb album here deep, dark and dubby, glitchy, industrial, post punk, new wave, dubstep HIGHLY RECOMMEND *****

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1.	Art Thief 02:30	lyrics	buy track
You Will Not Break These complicated ribs
2.	Allegory 05:12	info	buy track
3.	Foreword 02:23	info	buy track
4.	Walk Around feat. Johnette Napolitano 06:26	lyrics	buy track
Walk Around Me Just Walk Around
5.	Grief Notes 07:14	lyrics	buy track
Some ties were cut but I still see ghosts Their untruths haunt me In my mind and in these notes Me ......... In my mind ......... And in these notes .........
6.	Kill Eyes 05:46	info	buy track
7.	Traitor's Gate 04:53	info	buy track
8.	Nevermore 07:06	info	buy track
9.	Mary In The Mirror feat. Johnette Napolitano 06:26	lyrics	buy track
Mary in the Mirror
10.	Shades of Grey 06:59	info	buy track
11.	Dorothy feat. Johnette Napolitano 05:58	lyrics	buy track
Dorothy You had the Power You had the Power all Along.....
12.	Rolling Attack 06:45	info	buy track
13.	Rainy Days 02:03	info	buy track
14.	Phantom feat. Irrelevant 05:44	info	buy track
15.	Whispers in the Wind 05:32	info	buy track
16.	Post Script 04:19	info	buy track

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If the names Pinch, Vexâ€™d, Burial, Digital Mystikz, The Bug mean anything to you, stop reading now and buy or stream this album. Seriously, go. Go get it. That honestly is all you need to know: if you like the imperial phase when British dubstep was first establishing lasting artistic careers and extending its tendrils into the wider musical world â€“ completely separately from its branching into a fizzy, EDM / rave form in big arenas â€“ then you will love this record.
Which is not to say itâ€™s a throwback. Alicia Bauer aka Alley Cat has been in the bass music realm for a long time â€“ starting in drumâ€™nâ€™bass around the turn of the millennium, and through her Kokeshi label and work as an agent joining dots between different genres and subgenres as theyâ€™ve risen. All of this has clearly left her hunger for the new, and for the immediacy of impact of sound in the moment, undimmed â€“ as you can instantly hear, every single sound, space and structure on this record is crafted not to sound like any particular influence, but in order to achieve that impact.

The overarching mood is monumental and eerie, like a vast haunted factory, the clangs and hisses of past industry echoing endlessly through the dark space. The rhythms are generally those of â€œhalf-stepâ€ dubstep, a 70bpm crawl that makes space for huge snares, but also allows fine lines of percussion and filtered breakbeats to snake round the basslines. And it connects back to older traditions â€“ unsurprisingly to industrial music, but also to its first cousin, goth.

The latter is most obvious when the vocals of Johnette Napolitano of veteran gloom-rockers Concrete Blonde come in three of the 16 tracks, but it is also all-pervading as the album goes on â€“ partly in specific guitar and synth motifs that rise through the mix, but also in an arch, mysterious musicality throughout. Most of all, though, this is soundsystem music. Every sound, whether from guitar, drum machine or abstract sample, is perfectly placed in space, and feels like an object you can walk around, apprehend, perhaps even touch. Itâ€™s incredible sound sculpture, crafted as a full album experience, and in these darker than dark times is quite the experience to hide in the shadows with. --JOE MUGGS via The Arts Desk

Written and Produced by Alley Cat / Alicia Catherine Bauer
Except for 'Walk Around' 'Mary in the Mirror' and 'Dorothy' co-written by Johnette Napolitano. 'Phantom' co-written by Irrelevant aka J.Pratt

Mixed at Kokeshi Studios
Mastered by 1020 Mastering

Distributed by Outpost via Virgin / UMG

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released October 31, 2024

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Alley Cat London, UK

Kokeshi / Kool FM / Armory / Offshore

Alley Cat's debut album 'The Widow Project' out now.

Alley Cat (est. 1997) has DJ'ed all over the world hosted her own label nights at Fabric, created the Kokeshi ((pod)) Kasts and run the Kokeshi label since 2009. Check her radio show on Kool FM via Rinse.Fm or the Rinse app ... more

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