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The Cat Empire is the debut studio album of Australian jazz and funk band The Cat Empire, which was released on 24 October 2003. It peaked at No. 15 on the ARIA Albums Chart and was certified 2× platinum by ARIA in 2005. Four singles were issued from the album, "Hello" (October 2003), "Days Like These" (February 2004), "The Chariot" (May 2004) and "One, Four, Five" (2004). At the ARIA Music Awards of 2004, the band received six nominations including Best Group, Best Breakthrough Artist – Album and Best Urban Release for The Cat Empire; Engineer of the Year and Producer of the Year for Baldwin's work on the album.
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The Cat Empire is absolutely crazy, when you think it's settled into one style it goes somewhere completely different, and goes from jazz to ska punk to vaudeville to trying to copy The Streets and loads in between. I don't know how much of it works but it's fun when it does, The Chariot is a decent ska number, The Wine Song sounds like it should be on stage on Broadway or the West End or in a fucking circus, I dunno :D I think it made me smile enough to earn a 3/5, what a silly album for a Sunday morning.
I can't deny this LP has energy and heart in spades, but perhaps a bit too much for its own good. The instrumental focus swerves all over the place, pulling from bossa nova influences before veering into straight pop or somewhere else across the genre map. The lyrics stray into corny territory multiple times, and feel at once juvenile yet overdone. The execution is clearly well done, just feel the final product is a bit too much all at once on multiple fronts.
Alternative rock, jazz, ska, reggae. Está bien. Un 4, venga.
Could be worse 2.5
Interesting album. I liked it for the most part.
Jazz, funk, mariachi, Australian? Wild ride
Yet again baited by the genre name. You'd think "Acid Jazz" would be like really psychedelic jazz, but nope it's just that shit they play at pool parties. Not really my vibe. 2/5.
Honestly don't know