“You know they say that twins have a language? I sometimes feel like we have that,” Rachel Zeffira, one half of Cat’s Eyes says of her relationship with the other half, Faris Badwan. It’s a creative bond that has so far culminated in their critically acclaimed, self-titled 2011 debut, as well as the lauded soundtrack for Peter Strickland’s film The Duke of Burgundy; both seeped in sophisticated, strange orchestrations. Two minds, it seems, is better than one.
In 2016, however, the duo return with the release of their second album proper, Treasure House, released on 3 June and produced and mixed by Steve Osborne (New Order, Suede, Happy Mondays). Its leading single, Chameleon Queen, illuminates the degradation of love using the regality of a poised neoclassical ballad. With Zeffira’s ghostly soprano filling the background, Badwan takes centre stage as the despondent ex-lover. “When I think of what you did, of all you hid,” he sings with an eerie contentedness, “I just don’t care about you anymore.”
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