The Canadian artist Cindy Lee, formerly the driving force behind the band Women, moves between ghost-pop, 60s girl-group aesthetics and an experimental sensibility. With Cat O’ Nine Tails, she delivers a dense, compact album. Over the course of 25 minutes, it unfurls a musical tension whose arc builds chronologically. Cindy Lee sketches, almost narratively, a film-like story in sound. Melancholic pop meets distorted sonic spaces; »Love Remains« breathes familiar retro magic, while instrumentals such as »Cat O’ Nine Tails II« recall cinematic synth surges.
Within her broader body of work, the album marks a moment of focus. After earlier, sprawlingly experimental releases, Cat O’ Nine Tails feels more deliberate, compact and structured. Cindy Lee works with intentional musical reduction. The album reveals whisper-soft vocals, fragile melodies and lo-fi textures oscillating between nostalgia and dissonance. The sound remains raw and direct – almost as if it were flowing straight from the hands that shaped it. A snapshot: controlled, yet spontaneous. This tension recalls early tape experiments. Cat O’ Nine Tails distils the Cindy-Lee cosmos to its essence: pop in an elegant, precise and simultaneously vulnerable form.
Cat O' Nine Tails
