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CMU Approved
Approved: Rachel Zeffira
By Aly Barchi | Published on Wednesday 8 August 2012
The thus far not-as-known half of Cat’s Eyes (the other being The Horrors’ Faris Badwan), Canadian soprano Rachel Zeffira is now set to make her grand studio debut with ‘The Deserters’. Having looted the ‘1960s girl group’ catalogue to make Cat’s Eyes’ own first long player, a solo Zeffira is now composing within the same delicate vein of the band’s ‘I’m Not Stupid’, rather than the retro, Ronettes-ish shuffle of ‘Not A Friend’.
So far, this budding orchestral play on My Bloody Valentine’s ‘To Here Knows When’ and a brief candle of a video promo (the centrepiece of which is the album’s sort-of-title track ‘Deserter’) are all that exist in the way of overtures to the LP. You can view the latter, an alloy of Julia Holter’s cut-crystal-classicalism and Kate Bush’s eerie caprice, here:
Rachel will appear live in promotion of ‘The Deserters’ at St Andrew Holborn on 18 Oct. The LP itself is out via RAF Records on 10 Dec.