Manimal Vinyl set to release album to benefit Invisible Children
MP3: Bat For Lashes – “A Forest”
Perfect As Cats: a tribute to The Cure will be released worldwide on October 28th, 2008 through LA indie label, Manimal Vinyl. The final tracklisting sees a relatively unchanged line-up since it was announced in the media last March. The charity album (to benefit the Invisible Children organization) boasts 32 tracks from 32 artists ranging from UK bands Bat For Lashes and Jesu to American anglophiles The Dandy Warhols to newcomers like Hecuba, blackblack and Army Navy.
NYC singer/songwriter Kaki King, Aussie band Devastations, Xu Xu Fang, Rio en Medio and Danger Mouse prodigee, Joker’s Daughter also make appearances.
The album will be released as a limited deluxe double disc extensive liner notes on the bands as well as the charity’s cause. It will also be released on all digital formats.
Perfect as Cats: A Tribute To The Cure
(Manimal Vinyl)
Street date: Oct. 28, 2008
disc 1
Xu Xu Fang “Fascination Street”
Bat For Lashes “A Forest”
Hecuba “Killing An Arab”
Astrid Quay (of Winter Flowers) “The Caterpillar”
Indian Jewelry “The Walk”
Rainbow Arabia “Six Different Ways”
We Are The World “Why Can’t I Be You?”
blackblack “In Between Days”
Rio en Medio “Pictures of You”
Gangi “Fire In Cairo”
Joker’s Daughter “Kyoto Song”
Aquaserge with Laure Briard “10.15 Saturday Night” (in French)
The Muslims “Grinding Halt”
Voyager One “M”
Ex-Reverie “The Hanging Garden”
Caroline Weeks (of Bat For Lashes) “The Drowning Man”
Devastations “All Cats Are Gray”
Disc 2
The Dandy Warhols “Primary”
Veil Veil Vanish “The Upstairs Room”
Wolkfin (ex-Junior Senior) “Charlotte Sometimes”
Army Navy “Jumping Someone Else’s Train”
Ich Bin Aiko “A Strange Day”
Lemon Sun “The Exploding Boy”
Corridor “The Kiss”
Katrine Ottosen (CALLmeKAT) “The Love Cats”
Silver Summit “A Night Like This”
Mariee Sioux “Love Song”
Kaki King “Close To Me”
Buddy “Sugar Girl”
Les Bicyclettes Blanches “Hot Hot Hot!”
Tara Busch “Let’s Go To Bed”
Jesu “The Funeral Party”
Sarabeth Tucek “Three Imaginary Boys”
Lewis & Clarke “Disintegration”
CURE TRIBUTE LINKS:
MySpace: www.myspace.com/perfectascats
Label Page: www.maimalvinyl.com