Damien

"Technically, Cats Always Land Butter Side Down has already recorded an album. It's actually a double-disc album, with each CD containing an hour's worth of material, but only two songs. The rest of the time is taken up completely by idle chit-chat between me and the other members. The recordings themselves were made using only one ambient microphone, built into a tape recorder or a computer monitor, respectively. The songs were written on the spot and only rehearsed once - if that. It's all very experimental and innovative and crude.

The point of Cats Always Land Butter Side Down, as I see it, is to embody the experience of being in a rock n' roll band, without glossing over the messy, ugly details. As a concept, it's more about the band than it is about the music. The music only exists to qualify us as a band. We're like the Velvet Underground, except if Andy Warhol played guitar, Nico sang full-time, the weird girl drummer played bass, and Lou Reed existed only as a figment of Andy's imagination (or as a splintered section of his own personality).

I know that last description probably doesn't make a lot of sense to you, but it's honestly the closest I can come to pinning us down. Otherwise, the music we seem to be coming up with is essentially really untidy post-punk riff rock. That part (the music, I mean) is quite mindless, and I think we'd be happier as a band if we didn't have to worry about it at all. But like I said, it's a qualifying factor. And it's a nice thing to do when we run out of things to banter about."