Cindy Lee Releases New Album 'Cat O'Nine Tails', Shares Video For "I Don't Want To Fall In Love Again"

CINDY LEE NEW ALBUM CAT O’NINE TAILS OUT TODAY ON REALISTIK STUDIOS SHARES VIDEO FOR  “I DON’T WANT TO FALL IN LOVE AGAIN"

PHOTO CREDIT: PHIL OSBORNE Cat O' Nine Tails is Cindy Lee's 6th album, and 2nd of 2020. A powerful collision of worldly and divine perspectives and "a landmark in pop music history." The 26 minute album is a combination of traditional torch songs, gothic and hardcore neo-classical material and marks the transition from hellish vanity and self-flagellation to exhaustion, exhaustion leading to divine resignation.  The album comes out today and is available digitally exclusively through the Realistik site, Cindy Lee's own label. The vinyl pre-order is completely sold out.

WATCH THE CAT O'NINE TAILS ALBUM PREVIEW For Patrick Flegel, Cindy Lee is more than just a pop music project but rather an intimate extension of a life long exploration of recording art, the electric guitar, queer identity and gender expression. Inspired by among countless others, Kenneth Anger, Karen Carpenter and Akihiro Miwa, the project is the culmination and realization of their deepest feelings, fears and desires spawned from a lifetime overcoming severe mental health issues and gender dysphoria.  Known for their work as the lead singer and guitarist of the now disbanded and much heralded band Women, we see Flegel take their songwriting and sound to a new level the Cindy Lee releases. Creating a unique world where splendor and sheen naturally collide with experimentation and abrasion. Delivering moments of true beauty through somber explorations of longing and loneliness, Cindy Lee is something to hold onto in a world of disorder. You can pre-order the album at http://www.geocities.ws/ccqsk/.

WATCH THE VIDEO FOR "I DON'T WANT TO FALL IN LOVE AGAIN" ACCLAIM FOR CINDY LEE: "What’s Tonight to Eternity emphasizes the razor wire beneath the soft candy of ‘60s Billboard hits and serves it with art-rock basslines, the most venomous synthesizers this side of Suicide, and electronic interference that bubbles like just-forming blisters." FADER "Fantastic...It’s a floaty retro pop song produced with a noisy indie-rock edge, like Deerhunter writing a ’60s prom ballad." Stereogum "A haunting and surreal exploration of gender dysphoria and expression set to spectral pop textures." Paste Magazine "An acute awareness of negative space and loads of echo on spare musical arrangements dominated by toy piano and thin, sharp electric guitar, as well as distorted vocals placed far back in the mix for maximum uncanny effect." AV Club "Cindy Lee’s journey to the deepest, blackest and noisiest depths of true beauty continues on What’s Tonight to Eternity, the enigmatic project’s fifth and nearly best full-length offering." BeatRoute "Cindy Lee show off their mighty range while somehow managing to sound like a perfectly constructed, singular vision." Exclaim! "The track is ambitious, both thematically and sonically. The complex set of emotions starts at certain center. The concrete view, gradually shifts; evolving into something complicated as the narrator learns, and becomes more than an impulsive reactor. Instrumentally, this shift in gear takes the form of a (totally wild, utterly beautiful) cacophonous breakdown." Gorilla vs.Bear on "I Want You To Suffer" "Masking a hideous underworld of gas-huffing evil behind a candy-colored sheen—to the untrained ear it’s breezy, bubblegum-infused dream pop unblemished by the tragedy and mental illness that’s guided Flegel’s work for years. " FLOOD Magazine "Patrick Flegel creates a gorgeous, captivating dreamworld that occasionally descends into nightmare on their fifth album as Cindy Lee." Brooklyn Vegan "A diverse set of avant-pop ranging from gauzy, ethereal pop inflected with ‘60s girl-group pop to synth-driven space-pop and ambient noise squalls." KEXP

CAT O' NINE TAILS TRACKLIST I. OUR LADY OF SORROWS 1:45* II. CAT O' NINE TAILS 1:42* III. FAITH RESTORED 2:55* IV. LOVE REMAINS 3:27 V. CAT O' NINE TAILS II 0:59* VI. AS I'M STEPPING THRU THE GATES 3:12 VII. CAT O' NINE TAILS III 1:47* VIII. I DON'T WANT TO FALL IN LOVE AGAIN 4:14 IX. BONDAGE OF THE MIND 4:23   * = Instrumental