Rising With the Sun by The Cat Empire

Rising with the Sun, the Cat Empire's seventh studio album, came out through Two Shoes Records on 4 March 2016 with Jan Skubiszewski producing, and the Melbourne band sound as though they've never met a groove they couldn't turn into a street party. Felix Riebl sings and bangs on percussion, Harry James Angus trades trumpet lines and vocals, Ollie McGill works the keys, Will Hull-Brown drums and Jamshid Khadiwala scratches away at the turntables, with the Empire Horns fattening up the brass.

It's jazz, funk, ska and rock all shaken up with Latin rhythms, sunny and loose-limbed. "Qué Será Ahora" led the way as the first single, with "Wolves" and "Bulls" behind it, and the album went straight in at number one in Australia, their second chart-topping debut after Two Shoes back in 2005.

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