Catherine - Sleepy

Starting off Sleepy with a roaring wash of guitars and a lyric that begins, "Hey motherf*cker/Hey superstar" doesn't exactly help Catherine shake the Smashing Pumpkins Jr. tag that it was stuck with from the start. Still, it's much more accurate to describe Catherine as a band drawing on a lot of the same influences as that other group rather than trying to clone them, even with Billy Corgan doing some of the production. Neil Jendon is a slightly lighter (and perhaps technically better, if only just) singer than Corgan, while the guitars betray a more general shoegazer influence than shows up in The Pumpkins, beyond a joint appreciation of My Bloody Valentine's sonic stun. Read More