"Enter NYC post-punk outfit Catcher, who brings hellbent cryptic electricity and ferocious brevity to the music landscape"
- Glide Magazine
"'Behind a Bleeding Heart' is a striking tune driven by gritty, brooding guitar lines and raucous, driven percussion. The haunting anthem is sure to get you thrashing around, with anthemic vocal lines and powerhouse melodies."
- Indie88
"‘The Fat Of A Broken Heart’ benefits from understated production and allows the band to play to its obvious strengths on tracks like early single ‘Comparing Saviors and Friends’, a frenzied, blood-on-the-wall onslaught held together by Eichler’s foreboding croon [...] On songs like ‘Hunger,’ ‘The Skin,’ ‘Cluster Flies,’ and claustrophobic new single ‘Behind a Bleeding Heart,’ the band dispense with the clichéd, youthful tales of invincibility and instead stare down the ugly truths of death and decay."
- NME
"The Fat of a Broken Heart more than lives up to the high expectations set by ['Comparing Saviors and Friends']."
- Joyzine
"When we say there’s enough energy here to power a mid-sized town, we mean it. The Fat of a Broken Heart absolutely shreds."
- Backseat Mafia
"[Their sound is] a desert of despair dipped into the mayhem of noise dusted with raw lyricism. Though, somewhere deep down, there’s a hidden art-rock water source, keeping alive the sorest spots. It’s well-mastered masochism."
- Still Listening
"From drawling croons to powerful screams, the band invoke a wide spectrum of emotion while creating a world of their own."
- Psychedelic Baby
"Imagine if a mad scientist mixed the Junkyard madness of the Birthday Party with the off-kilter sonic patterns of the FALL with a touch of Howling Wolf the end result would akin to the sound of CATCHER."
- CVLT Nation
"'Behind A Bleeding Heart' captures the band’s chaotic instrumental chemistry, packing their shambolic wiry energy into a whirling post punk maelstrom."
- Under the Radar
"'Behind a Bleeding Heart' is unsurprisingly gothic and brooding, but with a piercing whirr of guitars and a bass line so hypnotic, you’re hooked instantaneously. The band toes the waters of cacophony, but need jumps fully into the pool — a delicate balance of hysteria and control."
- Alt Citizen
"The lead single proper demands your attention from the very first note, dragging you through intense verses and choruses before all hell breaks loose with a potent instrumental breakdown. It’s relentless and repeatable."
- Backseat Mafia
"The fuzzy squall heard on their early singles is alive with the same gripping malaise that made Iceage and Protomartyr such pace-setting forces. And it’s made all the more impressive that the stony-faced gang have carved all this attention off the back of visceral live shows and just a handful of releases."
- NME
"The band tap into the darker side of the Big Apple, leaning on the city's post-punk heritage while carving out their own lane."
- Clash
"High-drama [...] dirgey"
- Brooklyn Vegan
"It’s easy to see (and more importantly hear) why Catcher are making their way up the musical ladder with 'Comparing Saviors and Friends.' Scuffed up guitars veer towards shoegaze here and there, but the riffs are spidery and crawl all over the track. The vocals cut through, dark and demanding as the whole thing propels through with anxious but melodic melodies the order of the day."
- Backseat Mafia
"[The band is] able to weave together visceral melodies and dissonance, creating a unique and distinctive blend all their own. The music is desperate while alluring all at once."
- Ghettoblaster
"You can just imagine this one going over well live, as cheap beer goes flying over the crowd’s head."
- We All Want Someone to Shout For
"The track is emotive and raucous as you’d expect from the buzz band and the video presents a slick production that matches the frenetic riffs and measured heartbroken vocals."
- Ghost Cult Magazine
"It’s a frentic, rampaging track that draws on their home city’s rich post-punk heritage along with echoes of their UK peers, particularly The Fall and turn of the century cult heores Ikara Colt."
- Joyzine
"Catcher’s newest single is a wailing and anticipative treat, fit to soundtrack a dramatic scene on your favourite crime drama. The NYC five-piece have delivered a moody, grungy track that will make your hair stand on end. The track ends in a cacophony of percussion, planned to perfection."
- Safe and Sound
"They put the listener under a spell and set them free into reckless abandon with the rattle of a tambourine."
- Alt Citizen |
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| Today, NYC post-punk group Catcher share a self-directed music video for "Behind a Bleeding Heart," the final single off their debut album, The Fat of a Broken Heart (released earlier this year). Via their new visual, the track is translated into a hazy world of raucous live fervor, a perfect example of the homegrown greatness this group is capable of. Speaking on their new video, drummer Wilson Chestney wrote: “For this video, we took some inspiration from Ira Cohen and covered our demo studio in Mylar, shooting a lot of the reflections. We also experimented with styling Vaseline on the lens of our camera and directly shooting a camcorder monitor.” During their first year as a band (2021), Catcher shared five singles — "Yesterday's Favorite" / "The Skin," "Only Advice" / "Fallen Stones," and "Comparing Saviors and Friends" — and played countless sold-out shows across the city, in addition to going on their first headlining tour across the U.S. with fellow NYC rockers Been Stellar. With the release of their debut album's last single, "Behind A Bleeding Heart," they were featured among The NME 100: Essential Emerging Artists for 2022, and also received their own individual NME feature shortly thereafter. Their past singles and debut LP have earned praise in publications such as Clash, Monster Children, Brooklyn Vegan, Under the Radar, Alt Citizen, and many more. |
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Catcher is heading out on tour with Liily and Model/Actriz, with the first date of tour taking place at the end of the month in Allston, MA. Tickets for all dates can be purchased here.
CATCHER LIVE^ with Liily * with Model/Actriz 6/21 - Allston, MA - Brighton Music Hall *^ 6/22 - Washington DC - DC9 *^ 6/23 - Pittsburgh, PA - Spirit Lodge *^ 6/24 - Philadelphia, PA - Silk City *^ 6/25 - Brooklyn, NY - Market Hotel ^ 6/26 - Montreal, QC - Bar Le Ritz *^ 6/27 - Toronto, CA - Baby G *^ 6/29 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle ^ 6/30 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th St Entry ^ 7/1 - Omaha, NE - Slowdown ^ 7/3 - Colorado Springs, CO - The Black Sheep ^ 7/5 - Salt Lake City, UT - Hangar House ^ |
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