The sounds of GYPSY AND THE CAT cruised into our consciousness last year in the sails of a beautiful yacht with their sophisticated brand of synth and falsetto laden alternate pop music.
It all started with the music. The duo of LIONEL TOWERS (25 years) and XAVIER BACASH (22 years) wrote and recorded and produced their debut album entirely on their own in a small room above a garage workshop in South Melbourne with borrowed gear, acquired technology skills and an incredible ability to write songs.
From there a demo version of ‘JONA VARK’ was picked up by national radio broadcaster Triple J in their home country of Australia. It was later released in France on the prestigious Kitsune Maison compilation and featured on the Neon Gold blog who wrote “This band is like a pot of synth gold at the end of the pop rainbow. GYPSY AND THE CAT are creating some of the best new soft-pop sounds around. Within the first few seconds of ‘JONA VARK’ I pretty much had a flashforward to singing this chorus at a bus stop in five years time, because This. Song. Sticks!”
Influenced by a mixture of musical legends ranging from Fleetwood Mac to Jeff Buckley and modern DJs from Justice to Daft Punk, Gypsy & The Cat’s GILGAMESH is the perfect summer soundtrack.
NME has tipped the band as one of the 20 most likely artist in the world to break through in 2011. Australia has led the way where ‘GILGAMESH’ has been released and to date has peak at #2 on the national itunes album chart.
