Mr. Cat & The Jackal's second studio album - Sins & Siren Songs - has taken nearly 13 months to complete. For this album, they built brand new instruments, deleted nearly half the tracks, toured twice, fought many times, used more than 50 lighters, smoked the equivalent to a small garden's grass, got a tattoo, gained some weight, lost some friends, gave a brother to God, increased the team, starved a lot, had transcendental experiences with an orb and somehow failed to capture any of the experiences on camera. Yet, through some miracle of the Grand Organised Design, it bled onto the studio microphones.
Sins & Siren Songs was produced by Abrie Du Plessis and MCATJ. It contains 16 tracks and was recorded at Fresh Meat Studios from January 2010 to January 2011. Several modified objects and instruments were built and used specifically for this album, including a banjo-lapsteel guitar, box o' rox, garden saw, human skull, noisy toys, bottles, swords and many more. The album is currently being mixed by SAMA winner Darryl Torr. The album is set for release in February 2011.
"The album's themes include a discussion on social paranoia, an anecdote on the direct influence of the 'great flood' and some hymns on heart-shaped holes. Each anthem, aria, ballad, canticle, carol, chant, chorus, ditty, lyric, melody, refrain, tune and verse has been very meticulously crafted to sculpt the audio landscape for you to take home and wander in," says Mr. Cat & The Jackal.
The first music video for the single The Devil Always Wants To Dance from Sins & Siren Songs, will also be released in February. The video was shot in one take on location in Phillipi and was directed by Thomas Ferreira (who has made music videos for the likes of aKING, Die Heuwels Fantasties and Jax Panik).
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