02/07/2025
Happy release day to longtime favourites The Native Cats who’ve blessed this new financial year with a splendid double a-side 7” single on Rough Skies records.
‘Aces Low’ is new territory for the group, a laid back but bent luau with a reassuring, what’s-the-opposite-of-a-diatribe vocal performance. It’d fit well in a karaoke medley alongside Nathan Roche’s ‘Magnetic Memory’ and Prefab Sprout’s ‘Moving The River’. I’m regularly touched by this group, but this song touches in a different way.
Alternatively ‘Lose Count’ is on the more agro side o’ things, leaning into hard into the biting and throbbing post-punk impulses the band has honed in on over their frankly, very impressive discography. - Nic
The Native Cats - ‘Aces Low / Lose Count 7” (Rough Skies, 2025) $14.95
P.S. First handful sold come with an interview fanzine.
P.P.S. I photographed this 7” on top of the new Coffin Prick album on Temporal Drift which I’m very excited to get my hands on!
