The Cat Empire "Bird In Paradise" COLOR:Blue Wren It’s a clear-eyed look at

It’s a clear-eyed look at the wild nature of everyday life that’s been spun up in sugary sweet melodies and scratched-crystal sounds

and Panda Bear - feature on this release

2015 (vinyl) and on April 21st (CD and digital)

This is the sound of outsider alt-psych fixtures looking in as the walls come down

the pinched nasal vocal--so reminiscent of his famous grandfather's catch-and-moan delivery

The Cat Empire "Bird In Paradise" COLOR:Blue Wren It’s a clear-eyed look atThe Cat Empire's tenth studio album, Bird In Paradise, is being released via BMG and includes the dance floor filler, "La Garcia." "When we set out to make the album Bird in Paradise, we wanted to make a more musically rich album than we had before, which featured the band instrumentally like never before." Ollie McGill "Musically speaking, Bird in Paradise is an Australian, Flamenco, Afro Cuban project. We've drawn from the themes of contemporary