Feather Beds is the musical moniker of Dublin artist, Michael Orange. Play Dead is the first single to be taken from the second album, which was recorded in Montreal and Dublin and is scheduled for release in 2017. Mixed by Stephen Shannon (Adrian Crowley, Strands), Play Dead follows on from last year's critically acclaimed debut album, The Skeletal System.

Using field recordings, samples and found sounds and a dark, melancholic undercurrent, whilst still retaining a twisted pop sensibility – Feather Beds creates music that occupies the space between fragile electronica and a shoegaze aesthetic of noise and texture. It’s music that takes influence from pop to drone to noise/art rock to folk and everything in between. Formerly a drummer with Dublin bands, The Star Department, Subplots and Autumn Owls, he has spent the past number of years writing and recording with these bands, releasing records and touring extensively in Europe and North America.

Visit:
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/FeatherBeds/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/Feather_Beds
Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/feather-beds
Bandcamp - https://featherbeds.bandcamp.com/album/the-skeletal-system


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Feather Beds - Play Dead

Daily Misconceptions is João Santos's intimate and trusted friend - an electronic musical project from Lisboa, Portugal. The soft tones and blissful moods are based on dreamy electronic sounds surrounded by a glitchy pop personality. Daily Misconceptions’s approach focuses on homemade electronic beats, glitchy pop-like melodies and lo-fi singing.

Visit:
Website - www.dailymisconceptions.net
Facebook - www.facebook.com/dailymisconceptions
Twitter - https://twitter.com/dm_pt_project
Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/dailymisconceptions

Daily Misconceptions - Insomnia Trap

Dayflower is a Leicester-based shoegaze band. The formation of the group was accidental and gradual. It started in 2013, when four musical misfits with a shared love of obscure '90s shoegaze and lo-fi pop got chatting outside a music venue in Leicester. Soon after, they began meeting to trawl through the absurdities of Youtube's underbelly, discuss HBO programmes and occasionally record a song. Then another song. And more songs.

Despite none of them ever intentionally 'forming a band', Alex, David, Chris and Simon somehow found themselves making music together, and they haven't stopped yet.

Imagine Big Star's most ear-warming melodies, adorned with M83-esque synth hooks and steeped in layers of gauzy, blissful noise, recalling My Bloody Valentine.

All carefully pieced together on an obsolete version of Cubase, in the kind of bedroom where Enid Blyton is still visible on the shelves and a tumble dryer is used for a chair.

Lush, ambitious pop, dreamed in from an other time / place.

Visit:

https://soundcloud.com/dayflowermusic
https://www.facebook.com/dayflowermusic/
https://dayflower.bandcamp.com

Dayflower - Neverfriend

Lost Film began as the minimalist guitar pop project of Jim Hewitt in Easthampton, MA in 2014.  Having just moved away from Boston after spending several years playing under the moniker Orca Orca, Hewitt adjusted back to small town life by focusing on writing straight-forward, layered pop songs.  Mixed with an equal adoration of Sarah Records of the late 80's and Pacific Northwest bands of the early 2000's, Lost Film released their debut full-length Imago (The Native Sound) in 2015 followed quickly by the 4 song EP Temporary (The Native Sound) in 2016; both seeing praise from the likes of Noisey, DIY Mag, and GoldFlakePaint.

Visit:
https://lostfilm.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/lostfilmband/
https://twitter.com/lostfilmband

Lost Film - As You Were

Rainbrother is Bjarke Bendtsen’s (ex-The Migrant) new project with a group of musicians from the Copenhagen indie scene. The group released their first track earlier this summer, ‘East African Dream’, a tribal inspired track with chanting choir, a steady beat and slide guitar references to Pink Floyd.

The song is mixed by Noah Georgeson (Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, The Strokes) who has agreed to become midwife for Rainbrother’s first full length album.

Bendtsen ended The Migrant earlier this year in Austin, Texas at Austin’s Psych Fest, Levitation. Since the first Migrant album came out in 2010 he has been backed by musicans from Austin on his American tours and by fellow Danes when touring Europe.

The birth of Rainbrother marks an end of this era, settling down in Copenhagen and a move from indie folk to electric rock territory.

The electricity is present on the first Rainbrother live video for the song “Break Out”. The group will be releasing this song as a single later this autumn prior to the album release which will be out in February next year.

You can watch the live version of “Break Out” here: ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZwiyslCj6Q ​ and listen to “East African Dream” on ​https://soundcloud.com/rainbrother

Visit:
www.rainbrother.com 
www.facebook.com/rainbrothersongs
www.twitter.com/RainbrotherBand 
www.instagram.com/RainbrotherBand 
www.rainbrother.bandcamp.com 
www.soundcloud.com/rainbrother

Rainbrother - Riverside

The Past is a solo recording project created by Lou Small who is currently based in South London. 

His beguiling and intrusive song 'Waiting' seems to sum up his whole sound, to listen to the rest of his current demo visit:

https://soundcloud.com/the-past-band

The Past - Waiting

P H O E N E is a French ambient electronic producer now based in Glasgow who collaborated for seven years with fellow Parisian artist SAYCET as a vocalist and songwriter on 'Through The Window' (released in 2011) and 'Mirages' (2015).

Dedicated to craft her own soundscapes for the past two years, she has been very active with two self-released EPs ('Dennistoun' and 'Anthem'), a split single with WOLF (ex Zoey Van Goey) and a series of cassette tapes with the first one entitled 'UN' freshly released in October 2016. 

She has also played shows in quick succession in her newly adopted city (most notably as support for LOSCIL at the Glad Cafe in November 2015 and BRAIDS in June 2016).

Visit:
www.soundcloud.com/phoenesomsavath
www.facebook.com/phoenemusic

PHOENE - Eugene

Kill Your Boyfriend is a two-piece band formed in Treviso (Italy) in 2011. At the moment they consist of Matteo Scarpa (guitar/vocals)  and Antonio Angeli (drums). 

After a 6-track EP (2011) in 2013 they released their self-titled debut album out on Shyrec Label.

Last year they played more than 80 gigs in top clubs and festivals, both in Italy and abroad. 

Two years after their debut album they released a  10” split featuring New Candys (IT) and a new album titled “The King Is Dead” in 2016, consisting of ten new tracks named after male monikers.

Visit:
http://www.killyourboyfriend.net https://www.facebook.com/kyboyfriend 
https://soundcloud.com/kill-your-boyfriend-1 https://twitter.com/killyourboyfrie https://instagram.com/kill__your__boyfriend

Kill Your Boyfriend - Man4

Cemeteries is the solo project of Kyle J. Reigle, whose music blends dream pop with goth rock, a combination that he refers to as goth pop. 

A product of his Buffalo, New York environment, he recorded his debut album over the course of six months in the guest bedroom of his apartment, looking to the music of David Lynch collaborator Angelo Badalamenti, vintage horror films, and some nearby wooded areas for inspiration. 

A gloomy but visually arresting video by Nolan Wilson Goff was tied to the title track of 2012's The Wilderness, which was appropriately released in late October. 

Visit:
https://speakinghorrors.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Cemeteries-165073953520531/
https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/cemeteries/id551221684

Barrow

Cemeteries - Sodus

Karr formed in 2013 in Ukraine as a home basement project. 

It consists of a two-piece band inspired by the sounds of HTRK, Death Grips, Big Black, Salem and shoegaze/noise music.

The band's first recording was a lo-fi  EP entitled "Post Music". 

Their last release is the 4-song recording "Long Walk".

Visit:

http://k-a-r-r.blogspot.com/ 

https://www.facebook.com/karrband/

https://soundcloud.com/karr_karr

Long Walk

Karr - Drone

Fauves is the solo project of Ryan Caldwell.


It was founded about a year ago when Caldwell started writing songs in his bedroom. 


All music is written by Caldwell except drums which are done by Ciaran Devlin.
 

Despite this, the 20-year-old band plays live as a four-piece.


Fauves recently recorded two new songs at 45aside with Lewis Tollan, which will be out soon on cassette.


In January 2017 the band played on BBC Radio 6.



Visit:

https://soundcloud.com/fauves


https://www.facebook.com/Fauvesband/

Fauves - Content (For now)

Maxime Delesalle, known by his stage name hOab, is an 18-year-old electronic musician and composer.

He started composing music on Ableton Live five years ago while taking piano and mastering lessons.

With 2 independently released EP's under his belt, hOab is currently working on a classical piano EP.

Visit:
https://soundcloud.com/hoab
https://hoab.bandcamp.com
 https://www.facebook.com/hOab-633240403529848/

Paths

hOab - Kleistpark

Starwheel is the project of Jamie Sterland, Amelia Cripps, Matthew Willis & Luke Charlston from Derby, United Kingdom.

The band was formed in late 2015 and released their first singles Drip Feed & Broken Glass in April 2016. 

They currently have further plans to release new singles Slow Down & Through My Window (Part I & II) in 2017.

Visit:
https://starwheel.bandcamp.com

https://www.facebook.com/starwheelband/

Drip Feed (Single)

Starwheel - Drip Feed

Trixicles is a Hove-based musician and composer. 

Up until now the artist has been making music almost completely anonymously. 

Trixicles has had tracks played on NTS Radio and worked on a musical project that was used by Givenchy in China and a track used at the Tate. All this was courtesy of the artist's long time friend and unofficial/unsung manager: instagram.com/gasius

As for now, the artist is just working on ideas for a physical release.

https://m.soundcloud.com/trixicles

Trixicles - And the Other One

Old Fashioned Lover Boy, born Alessandro Panzeri, is an Italian singer and songwriter. 

He has just released his second album, "Our Life Will Be Made Of Simple Things". Originally out only in Italy, it soon started echoing outside of the peninsula, following the single Oh My Love, a tender and soulful ballad made of environmental samples, electronic beats, dreamy voices and folk guitars.

Old Fashioned Lover Boy is now set to promote his new work through an ex- tensive tour of Italy. He is in the process of promoting his record abroad and booking a tour of Europe and in the UK.

Visit:
www.facebook.com/OldFashionedLoverBoy/
www.oflboldfashionedloverboy.tumblr.com

Our Life Will Be Made Of Simple Things

Old Fashioned Lover Boy - Oh my love

Jules Camp is an 18-year-old songwriter. She was born and raised in the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan. 

Throughout her childhood, Jules started to pick up and teach herself different instruments. By the time she was 16, she knew how to play 8 total. 

She has been writing and recording her own music since she was 13, as well in being in over 5 different bands in the last 2 years. 

Most would say the music she writes has a indie-alternative vibe to it. Her most recent album, Contribute to the Chaos, holds memories of childhood and regret, as well as love and loss.

Visit:
https://www.facebook.com/julesannecamp/
https://soundcloud.com/julescamp/

Jules Camp - Weekday Blues

Wolf Solent is the solo project of Danny Trew Barton. 

He records and plays everything in his bedroom. 

He packs mountains into matchboxes, a fuzzy escarpment of tussling snapshot symphonies and endless layers of fractured turbulence.

Visit :

https://twitter.com/WSolent
https://www.facebook.com/wolfsolent1
https://www.wolfsolent.tumblr.com


Upcoming shows :

18th June - Fulford Arms, York (w/The Peacers)
16th September - Madame Claude, Berlin

Wolf Solent - Red Moon

Borgboi is the sonic ramblings of Rich Peacock, a resident of Bournemouth UK.


Peacock has been in several bands but this is his first solo project of this nature. 


Inspiration comes from people watching, landscape immersion and warping the natural into the synthetic. 


"NOCSTAH" is taken from Borgboi's current debut e.p. available on Spotify.


Visit:

http://sptfy.com/z30

https://soundcloud.com/borgboi

https://www.facebook.com/borgboi/

Borgboi - NO CS TAH

FREEZ is a young surf-garage band from Italy. 

The band's sound is inspired by the Californian scene and artists such  asTy Segall, Wavves, Fidlar, Jay Reatards to name but a few. 

ROUTINE is the band's second self-released EP. 

Visit:
http://www.soundcloud.com/freezband
https://www.facebook.com/freezloud/

FREEZ - Bad Weed

YODOK III is an experimental three-piece band from Norway, Sweden and Belgium.

Their genre melts a variety of styles such as doom, metal, avantgarde, free jazz, ambient, noise, drone and post-rock.  

YODOK III are primarily a live band. Every show is a ritual based jam session, where dissonance is moulded into breath taking harmony and dynamics

Visit:
https://soundcloud.com/yodokiii
https://newwaveofjazz.bandcamp.com/album/yodok-iii
https://www.facebook.com/yodoklll/

YODOKIII - In a Realm of Wander Behold the Fleeting Shadows Exclaim in Delight

Eric Sanchez is a Chicago-based musician, composer and producer. His ambient music is entirely sample based.  Sanchez's music has a lot of alien references which find allegories in nature and that revolve around themes of identity, growth and self-acceptance.  Being Asian-American has provided the musician with a unique experience that he shares through songs and samples.

Visit:
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC6jYMhCFaQ
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ericjohnsanchez

Eric Sanchez - Rubaiyat

Blank consist of members from Ulrika Spacek, Method Actress & Lunar Quiet, based in London & Brighton. The band formed in early 2017. 

The music is recorded out of their respective bedrooms and sent between the members.

The debut EP 'By Design' is out later this year featuring 'In Your Arms' -  with video shot by Katia Ganfield(Artwork by Rowan J Stevens).

Visit:

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-628644062-314053579/

Blank - In Your Arms

Jamie Robson has released and performed as Magic Panda since 2011.

His music assimilates a wide range of in influences, from the delicate 'plinkerpop' of Morr Music's Herrmann and Kleine, through the sonic experimentation of Border Community to the more cinematic progressive soundscapes of GYBE, Mono, MBV and Sigur Ros. 

Magic Panda's sound exists in the peripheries of a range of sub genres spanning techno, progressive house, shoe-gaze, post-rock, electronica and ambient.

The artist is currently putting the  final touches to a new live set to showcase his latest work.

Visit:
Soundcloud.com/magicpanda
https://www.facebook.com/Magic-Panda-131923653523332/

Cloud FForest EP

Cloud FForest

Magic Panda - Cloud Fforest

Patient Hands is the solo-project of Alex Stooshinoff, a composer and pop musician from the Canadian Prairies. 

“At Parting” is the opening track of his upcoming album entitled “Stoic”, which is about a several year long sickness and the warp and the weft of mystical experience that ran through it. 

The song concerns the feeling of having lost oneself, and awoken in the metaphorical dark. 

Stooshinoff currently lives in Montreal, where he studies philosophy and electroacoustics. 

Visit:
https://soundcloud.com/patienthands
https://www.facebook.com/patienthandsband

At Parting

Patient Hands - At Parting

Moondrive is the solo project founded in 2014 by Italian self-taught musician/songwriter Emanuele Cicerchia (born 1992).

His compositions waves layers of disparate music textures and genres building from psych rock, electronic experimentations to shoegaze, pop and melodic soundscapes.

Please visit:
https://soundcloud.com/moon-drive
 https://www.facebook.com/moondrive.m/

Particular

Moondrive - Particular

CA:RU is the solo project of Cardiff’s Ryan Edwards. 

Edwards lays out ambient, experimental, off kilter beats that have all the feels of the Ethereal. 

Distorted RnB influenced vocals and ominous drums resonate through dreamy synths that take the listner on a haunting journey of nostalgia. 

CA:RU’s first upcoming EP (11:11) takes influence from the rawness of nature with pulsating rhythms, amorphous textures and grounding vibes to create a dreamy atmosphere of oneness.

Visit:
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/r-a-14
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carubeats/

CALIDUM

CA:RU - CALIDUM

Vákoum is an American duo formed in New York, 2013, by multi-instrumentalists and producers Kelli Rudick and Natalia Padilla. 

Israeli/American composer Kelli Rudick can be heard on the drums, mbira, vocals, guitar, live looping, and synth, while Mexican composer Natalia Padilla, is featured on guitar, synths, live looping, sampling and vocals.  

By merging the analog and digital world, the two create an intricate environment for their moving arrangements. Their sound is a dive into a warm sonic pool, meeting at that elusive, delicate intersection of complexity and raw, earnest heart. 

Visit:
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/vakoum
Bandcamp: https://vakoum.bandcamp.com/
Vákoum: http://vakoum.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vakoum.music/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vakoum.music/

Home For Home

Vàkoum - Still Ready

Twin Studies started out as the solo bedroom recording project of Jay Stanley in late 2012. 

The project grew to a four piece in 2013 after Stanley enlisted the help of other local musicians and friends to complete a live lineup, and released their debut EP, Precious Places, the following year. 

In 2015 the band released two songs, “Attic Room” and “Space Girl.”

After a complete change of musicians except for Stanley in 2016, Twin Studies is now releasing a new record. 

The band is specifically chasing much more involved guitar melodies while still maintaining a wall of sound and a driving rhythm. 

"Years and Years" is the best representation of the rest of the songs on the release since it combines and distills elements of all of them – floating pop riffs, droning guitars, and lush synths.

Visit:
https://www.facebook.com/TwinStudies/
https://twinstudies.bandcamp.com/

Years and Years

Twin Studies - Years And Years

Bridal Shower formed in late 2015. 

The group formed around a love of 90's post punk and noise rock bands such as Sonic Youth, Jesus Lizard, Fugazi and Melvins. 

The band quickly headed to the studio to record their debut album Negatives which was recorded at 7 West Studios, mixed at Glassworks Studio Recording and mastered at Chicago Mastering Service. Negatives was released on June 9th 2017 on vinyl, tape and digital. 

The band have been seen performing consistently round the UK, sharing bills with bands such as Lvl Up, Big Business, Young Legionnaire, Slowcoaches and Qui.

Visit:
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/bridalshowergla
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BridalShowerGLA/

Put Your Gloves On

Bridal Shower - Put Your Gloves On

Based in Provo (Utah), Goldmyth is a virtuosic singer-songwriter making electro-pop music in an unusual way: with the harp.  

Indeed, Goldmyth is a classically trained harpist who decided to use the instrument to experiment with a variety of music styles. 

“One day, I realized I could merge my two passions and write songs for the harp” she shares.  “I’d lock myself in the practice room in the school of music and write songs.  Then, I started using a looping pedal to add vocal layers.”

Influenced by artists like Joni Mitchell, James Black and, most notably, Sufjan Stevens,  Goldmyth seamlessly blends glimmering harp chords with weighty synths and springy percussion.  

Visit:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/goldmythmusic/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goldmythmusic/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/goldmythmusic
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChCxIPUG1CdiycTai0OpnFg
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/56SWqcV7Loc9Ec2TUynAnz
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/goldmythmusic
BandCamp: http://goldmyth.bandcamp.com/
​

Faded Dream

Goldmyth - Faded Dream

Happy Couple are a 3 piece who have carried on from their previous and late band, Lunar Quiet.

Based in Brighton, they began to work on new material in late January 2017. 'Mass Policy' was the first song they wrote as a new band, so it seemed fitting to release as an introduction.

Recorded by Theo Verney 
Mixed & Mastered by Rory Attwell
Artwork by Rowan J Stevens

Happy Couple - Mass Policy

Since the birth of the label in 1997, FatCat has always had a solid engagement with material sent to us as demos. Where numerous labels will throw demos straight into the trash unopened, at FatCat we've always made an effort to listen and reply to every demo received. Numerous FatCat artists have been picked up having been discovered in this way (including Frightened Rabbit, The Twilight Sad, David Karsten Daniels, Welcome, Odonis Odonis, Get Back Guinozzi!, Silje Nes, Ensemble, Xinlisupreme, Songs Of Green Pheasant, Janek Schaefer - to name just a few), and it has always been really exciting to unexpectedly discover something great in this way. Just as when we started, this philosophy of keeping an ear to the ground and attempting to support good new creativity remains at the core of what we do.

With rapid changes in technology of recent years, the majority of demos are now sent to us electronically, but we are still happy to receive material through the post as CDs (please mark as 'demo submission' and mail FatCat Records, PO Box 3400, Brighton, BN1 4WG). Whilst we are still receiving a high quantity of demos, with our ever-busy release schedule and ongoing commitments to an expanding roster of signed artists, FatCat are now finding fewer opportunities to physically release material from new artists. As an antidote to this, back in 2004, we began using our website to showcase the best of the demos we were receiving. Alongside a DIY microsite built specifically to help people who wanted to release their own music, we hosted the our favourite demos online, with artwork and MP3s available for free download. In 2010 we began to use the more immediate freedom of SoundCloud as a platform - setting up a dropbox for people to submit tracks to and a player on the front of our site to showcase the best demo submissions. 

In February 2012, the new and improved FatCat demo site you are now using was launched, again using SoundCloud as the engine to drive the site. We have kept all of the the original demo artists on the new site - grouping them in collections archived by year. There is a lot of really great material stored away here, so please do spend some time looking around. 

The choices of who we have asked to join this archive are highly selective, and we make no apologies for this. These are tracks we consider to be really good quality material, tracks that we are happy to help promote and to have associated with FatCat. If you like what you hear here, then please do download the tracks and share this music with your friends.

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