I used to hate Faris Rotter when his first band, the Horrors, were unleashed upon the world. No band on the planet was more scenesterific than his...The Horrors, quite honestly, were horrible. Then something happened...thye put away the black hair dye and hair spray and became a band worth hearing. Now, here is Faris Rotter once again in a band...only this time it’s as Faris Badwan (his real name) along his musical partner Rachel Zeffira. Together as Cat's Eyes, this duo creates strange gothic easy listening music rooted in 60's garage pop that's hauntingly ethereal and surprisingly good.
Their self titled album is a bizarre take on the Wall of Sound/Phil Spector & Joe Meek productions of the past. Lo-fi, echoic, and about the weirdest thing you're likely to hear, Cat's Eyes are beyond intriguing. Alternating between music for meditation and what sounds like Walker Brothers outtakes from 1968, Cat's Eyes wall of strangeness will have you gripped throughout each of the ten songs here and leave you wondering what in the world you just heard.
While the album does occasionally spend some time in the realm of the undead and become too weird for its own good, it eventually comes back to the mortal world and becomes listenable again. Cat's Eyes' ghostlike nature and spooky effects will not only possess your soul but scare the heck out of you and whether or not you like it depends on how much strangeness you can tolerate.
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