Kittie have re-recorded a few of their traditional songs for brand spanking new EP Spit XXV.
The Canadian alt-metal band launched the EP at the moment (September 19), for which they revisited 4 tracks that initially appeared on 2000 debut album Spit: the title monitor, Do You Suppose I’m A Whore?, Brackish and Charlotte.
The discharge, preceded by the only Spit XXV final month, was produced by Garth Richardson. Richardson additionally produced the unique Spit album, and the brand new EP marks his first collaboration with Kittie within the years since.
Kittie put out the Spit album on January 11, 2000 through Ng and Artemis Data. It was a cult hit for the rising quartet, reaching quantity 79 on the US Billboard 200 chart and topping the US Heatseekers Albums chart. The discharge made singer/guitarist Morgan Lander one of many few feminine figureheads of the nu metallic period, although the band distanced themselves from the style with later albums, which pulled extra affect from excessive metallic.
Drummer Mercedes Lander spoke about Kittie’s affect on later feminine metallic singers, together with Poppy and Justine Jones of Employed To Serve, in a current interview with Kerrang!.
“When folks ask questions on that type of affect, I simply really feel outdated,” she mentioned. “Once they use phrases like ‘legacy’ in conjunction [with] our band, I really feel like we’ve possibly side-stepped the greatness that would have been. However we’re making an attempt to reclaim it now. Again then we have been the lone girls in a sea of nu metallic ‘dudes’. The world is a little more prepared for us now.”
Final 12 months, Kittie put out Fireplace, their first studio album since 2011 and their first since getting back from a five-year hiatus in 2022. It obtained usually optimistic critiques, together with 4 stars from Steel Hammer.
Journalist Paul Travers wrote: “It is a supremely assured return from a band who, whereas acknowledging what has gone earlier than, are intent on creating one thing contemporary, new and thrilling. This Kittie nonetheless has claws.”
