Peter Cat Recording Co. has introduced a brand new album, “Beta,” out Aug. 9 by way of Muddy Water.
The first single will arrive May 16, because the band introduced headlining tour dates starting in August. After a gap run with Khruangbin, Peter Cat will tour the U.S., U.Ok. and Europe earlier than returning home for a string of dates in India. Tickets for the headlining dates go on sale Thursday, May 16, at 10 a.m. native time.
The New Delhi-based band teased the record on Instagram Wednesday, with a video that includes a herd of elephants devouring an edible association with the album’s title written in watermelon slices.
“‘Beta’ is a collection of stories about the future told 50 years in the past, to make sense of the present, on our only home, planet Earth,” the band famous of the upcoming album, its first since 2019’s “Bismillah.”
A press launch mentioned that “Beta” was simply one in every of 5 potential titles for the album, because the band wrote down all 5 and let drummer Karan Singh’s six-month-old son attain in and select one. The end result, “Beta,” interprets to “child” in Hindi.
Produced by Peter Cat’s personal Suryakant Sawhney, Kartik Pillai and Dhruv Bhola, the album guarantees a “whimsical amalgamation of indie, bossa nova, jazz, psychedelic and more.” As displayed in “Bismillah,” the band can be closely influenced by crooner music.
“That style of singing is really emotional,” Sawhney informed Variety in April 2023, when Peter Cat final carried out in New York. “I also enjoy it in this weird masculine way. I was drawn to that strong, macho voice when I was younger. But it was conservative, you know? Those guys couldn’t sing sleazy shit. They had to come up with cheesy ways of saying, ‘Hey, we’re gonna fuck tonight.’ So I like the idea of it being grimy.”
View the tour poster under, and buy tickets here.
