So Many Nights  (Audio CD) 
by The Cat Empire

This time around, the party throwdown that the boys pioneered on "Two Shoes" has crossed the line between mystery and light. And back. A few times. "So Many Nights," says bandleader Felix Riebl, "is filled with little vignettes from our travels, stories that got etched out in the back of a tour bus over the years. You get to a point where it really gets hard to distinguish between what's happening and what's a dream." And so the strange, colorful trip unfurls from the airborne whimsy of "Panama" to the mystifying, swirling thrill of '"The Darkness." It's all melancholy ache in "Lonely Moon," funky as hell in "So Long" and "Strong Coffee," then freaky like a spaghetti western acid trip in "Voodoo Cowboy." From David Letterman to Jay Leno appearances, the Glastonbury Festival to New York's Central Park Summerstage, Japan to Barcelona, from Bonnaroo to the Montreal Jazz Festival and rave reviews at all stops, it often seemed The Cat Empire were sole nominees for Superlative of the Year (Indefinable Genre Division) `06/'07. Like some kind of funky circus troupe, they roll into town, sell twice as many tickets as the previous visit, and a truckload of CDs on the way out. Already platinum in their native Australia, So Many Nights was recorded in Malibu, CA in April '07 by the legendary John Porter (Roxy Music, The Smiths, BB King, Ryan Adams).