Summer Cats

Sounding just as warm, sweet, and cuddly as their name suggests, the summertime Cats produced in Melbourne, Australia, in 2006 and so are made up of ex-Earthmen frontman Scott Stevens along with Hugh, Irene, Julia, and Scott B. The music group first produced waves with “Hush Puppy,” a jangly monitor rooted in works just like the Go-Betweens and, probably even more noticeably, Cub. THE SUMMERTIME Cats produced the song obtainable on-line, where it produced a substantial amount of essential buzz, notably from the people at Pitchfork. Because of all the buzz, the following yr found the summertime Cats liberating a flurry of singles and EPs. “Hush Puppy” discovered its method onto a break up 7″ (released on Knock Yr Socks Off) using the Portland-based indie pop duo Eux Autres, as well as the Australian label Popboomerang released Scratching Post, the summertime Pet cats’ debut EP. Many paths from that disk had been repackaged and re-released as an individual, Wild Grain, via the Miami-based label Cloudberry, which proceeded to go forward and released another from the band’s singles, Unhappy World, in 2008. Another EP, Enthusiasm Pop, arrived on London’s WeePop Information that same yr. Their debut recording, Tracks for Tuesdays, premiered fittingly plenty of in the summertime of 2009 by Slumberland Information.