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Heirs to Seattle's glorious tradition of garage-rock, the Catheters
wed raucous punk energy and teenage angst.
The singles Build a Home (Subpop),
It Can't Stay This Way/ Means To an End (Kapow) and
Put It Together/ Days Gone By (Subpop) painted the picture of a
desperate bunch of misfits with a mission to destroy.
That mission yielded the anthemic gems of
debut album Catheters (Empty, 1999):
The Kids Know How To Rock
Teenage Trash,
Those Nights Are Gone,
Treat Me Like You Should,
and Never Look Back.
Static Delusions And Stone-Still Days (Subpop, 2002) is a more mature
statement that still packs enough power to the envy of
Murder City Devils and
New Bomb Turks but, at the same time,
goes for the soul, as if Bruce Springsteen and not Kurt Cobain was the
saint patron of Seattle's grunge.
Been There Before and Nothing
are rousing, incendiary, abrasive slabs of life, that occasionally approach
the deranged intensity of the Stooges (Clock On The Wall)
and the 13th Floor Elevator
(3000 Ways, Endless Avenue) and the manic violence of
the Sex Pistols (Disguise Myself).
The thrashy, twin guitar noise of Brian Standeford and Derek Mason
recall the New York Dolls, but, rather than beating the hell out of a song,
they are capable of pauses and tempo shifts, thereby adding melodrama to
the frenzy.
Howling (Subpop, 2004) increases their obsession with the Stooges
and MC5, but at the expense of sounding predictable.
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