Catalyst

In the organizer's words:

The second longplayer from Catalyst is here.
"Double Sky" will be released on 20.10.2023 via Radicalis Music and is the St. Gallen duo's fourth release, including two further EPs. High-energy alternative rock with a pinch of retro nostalgia is still Dominic Curseri and Ramon Wehrle's preferred playground, without it appearing repetitive or one-dimensional. With great riffs, interesting songwriting and a pinch of irony, they blow the dust off the familiar rock duo format of guitar and drums and let it shine in new splendor.
Playground is the keyword: "King Of The Slide" (24.02.23) is the album's first single and is not about the familiar style of blues rock guitar, as initially assumed, but about the king of slides on the playground. He defends his kingdom with all his might and does not shy away from draconian measures. In the style of Queens Of The Stone Age, the duo drives the other children through the sand with hard riffs, a booming chorus and nasty fuzz guitars and performs the song full of energy in the accompanying classically simple but very chic black and white music video.
The setting of the second single "Canapé" (14.04.23) is also immersed in black and white - but with splashes of red. It tells the story of a delivery boy who has to deliver to a vampire, blood-soaked sofa included, of course. The first hesitant blues sounds soon give way to board riffs and fat drums before the song explodes in a Jack White-style whammy guitar solo.
"Strays", which will be released on 02.06.23, is the third single and Dominic Curseri also comes up trumps here with his ironic, laconic lyrics. In the tradition of old blues folk songs, he tells his stories as excerpts from the lives of outsiders in (American) society: hobos, junkies, petty criminals or, as here, a gang of 12 brothers are his subjects.

The album-titled "Muse Of The Double Sky" (04.08.23) has what it takes to become a classic: an anthemic chorus to sing along to, stunning energy and a devoted declaration of love as lyrics - what more could you need? In three-and-a-half minutes, Catalyst blast through this stormy, self-sacrificing, addictive ode to their muse and bring the heavens crashing to earth. "The Mirror" (15.09.23) is the last single before the album release and things get even heavier here. Deep stoner riffs and driving tom grooves underline the love-hate relationship with one's own reflection - Josh
Homme would have a tear running down his cheek if he heard it.
"Last Song Before The World Ends" is a melancholy number and completes "Double Sky" with the darkly dynamic "The Weight Of The Wind", the indie-rocking "Time Machine" and the retro-dramatic "Nazareth", before "Jim Jimmy" closes the 10-track album with old acquaintances: The inclined Catalyst listener knows about Jolene, the gangster legend sung about in the song of the same name on the first album. In "Jim Jimmy", she is freed from prison by her lover and soon-to-be-husband, in which she has been languishing since a failed coup.
But Catalyst don't have to worry about that, because their second coup "Double Sky" is by no means a failure, but presents a band that knows what its strengths are and knows how to play them out in a hard-hitting, energetic way with a lot of humor and irony.