The Catheters Record Release Performance May 18, 2004

(Easy Street Records, Queen Anne) It's interesting to gauge the reactions people have to the new Catheters material. There are those who loved the grimy, bleak punk undertones of Static Delusions and Stone-Still Days and are having a tough time moving on with the band's shift to a slightly less dark-and-moody direction, while people who never really listened to the band before are suddenly e-mailing me about how much they love the new record, Howling... It Grows and Grows!!! Personally, I've been on both sides of the equation, but the more I listen to Howling the more I like the classic-rock groove coursing throughout, as well as the more heavily textured sound--influenced, frontman Brian Standeford has said, by listening to lots of Pere Ubu and Rocket from the Tombs. It's a complex, sprawling new take on the Catheters, a band that's never seemed comfortable sitting exactly where people's expectations want to place them. JENNIFER MAERZ

(from http://www.thestranger.com/current/up_coming.html)