Peter Cat 'Starchamber' album launch – Edinburgh

Starchamber is the shape-shifting second LP by Peter Cat — a darkly glittering art-

pop fever dream that explores guilt, transcendence, and surreality across nine

blistering tracks with a playful theatrical allure. The culmination of a renaissance year

for the Glaswegian outfit, leaving their earlier flirtation with twee indie-pop behind

and trading it for something far more menacing and cinematic, Starchamber

crackles with intent from the start, taking in a plethora of diverse influences across

its 41-minute runtime.

“The overarching theme of Starchamber is guilt, ultimately… It’s about that private

court we all carry within ourselves, that puts us on perpetual trial for all of the

things we’ve done terribly wrong, even though we haven’t done anything wrong to

begin with. That’s what the ‘Starchamber’ is – that place we send ourselves to, to be

judged and punished by ourselves.”

Groovy yet apocalyptic, the album marks a tribute to the surreal spaces we create to

process our inner lives – both a triumphant return and a bold new direction for Peter

Cat.

Support from this show comes from Carnatic Indian classical-inflected folk outfit Sunday Driver.

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