Moroni's Review of Kitten's "Like A Stranger"

Kitten

Every music lover needs to have a friend like my awesome friend, Nikki, my tattooed Mormon mom friend who has great taste in music.  I would have never heard of Kitten if it had not been for her.  Truthfully, this band is new.  "Like A Stranger" is their third EP, and their debut album won't even come out until next year.

So other than Nikki's raves about them, I knew nothing about them.  I started the music, and my wife Martha immediately observed, "This sounds like '80s."  And their first song does.  It is so '80s that Nu Shooz would be proud.  But that is not altogether a bad thing.  It is catchy.

The next song is "Yesterday", and it continues with the '80s obsession.  The drum beat is lifted from Prince, and the guitar riffs have an uncanny resemblance to the Fixx.  The whole album continues like this.  "Doubt" is a sythpop gem that evokes Camoflauge, and the EP finishes out beautifully with shoegaze distortion on "King of Kings" that would make Jesus & Mary Chain hang their mop heads in approval.

This album is catchy and infectious.  Each of the six songs will have you grooving incessantly, even though it is a throwback to days when things were prettier in pink - and in leg warmers.  It will be interesting what mysteries their new album holds.