Steal the Light by The Cat Empire

Steal the Light, the Cat Empire's sixth studio album, came out on 17 May 2013 through Inertia Records and Two Shoes Records, the Melbourne band's first on an independent label. It also arrived after the longest wait of their career to that point, nearly three years on from Cinema, and it opened a run of three albums with Jan Skubiszewski in the producer's chair.

The formula hasn't gone anywhere: jazz, funk, ska and rock thrown together with a heavy Latin accent, Felix Riebl and Harry James Angus trading vocals, Angus's trumpet cutting through, Ollie McGill's keys and Jamshid Khadiwala's turntables filling the gaps and Will Hull-Brown keeping the whole party on its feet. "Brighter Than Gold", the lead single, went out in February and did good business, and the title track followed in May. At home it went straight in at number 3 on the ARIA Albums Chart.

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