Peter Cat
The Raeburn Brothers
Glaswegian art pop auteurs PETER CAT return to Edinburgh for a full band headline show, ahead of their colossal new single and eponymous album, ‘Starchamber’.
‘Starchamber’ takes a hammer to the jaunty, twee avant-pop that Peter Cat formerly traded in – from the opening salvo of discordant, fuzzy guitar lines duelling with soaring, operatic vocals, it’s clear that we’re in entirely new sonic territory.
There’s shades here of Frank Zappa’s caustic playfulness, combined with a jazz-inflected crushing heaviness inspired by King Crimson, keeping this tune in step with the likes of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and Black Midi. All of this adds up to create a vibe that’s somehow both groovy and apocalyptic.
Peter Cat’s back catalog incorporates a wide range of influences, from angular indie rock, analog synth-pop, and torch-song balladeering; all undergirded by a wry and sardonic bass-baritone croon; like Berlin-era Bowie crossed with Frank Zappa.
Peter Cat’s debut LP, The Saccharine Underground, was released in 2020 through MoFi Records and distributed through Scottish indie heavyweight Last Night From Glasgow. This was followed by the well-received EP The Magus in 2022, which spawned fan favourite single, ‘Melon Dating Simulator!!’, a surreal track about cross-species dating in an imagined future dystopia. Peter Cat’s forthcoming second full-length, Starchamber, will be released through Cambridge-based Trapped Animal Records in late 2025.
