In 2009, four Japanese women met in Brooklyn and decided that they really wanted to start a band. Master Cat is their third album and a remarkably strong one considering none of them were musicians beforehand. It does mean that the songs in Master Cat are raw and real but they carry them all with an underlying intelligence of craft and ambition.
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Hard Nips - "Alternative Dreamland" | Post-Trash Premiere
It’s been five years since Brooklyn via Japan’s Hard Nips released the Bunny EP, but the long wait is over as they’ve announced their next full length, Master Cat. Due out June 4th via Rochester’s Dadstache Records, the quartet’s last is inspired by 80’s post-punk and alternative rock (think Blondie, B-52’s), driven through a garage pop lens.