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CMU Approved
Approved: Cat
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 2 February 2017
Catherine Pierce is best known as one half of The Pierces, with her sister Allison. But having basically spent their entire lives together, they’ve decided it might be nice to have a bit of a break and go solo.
They actually announced their plans to do that back in 2015, and now here’s Catherine with the first glimpse of what a solo Pierce might sound like. Going simply by Cat, she has just released her debut single, ‘You Belong To Me’.
“I wrote this song while I was micro-dosing with mushrooms”, she told Noisey. “When you micro-dose it’s supposed to be imperceptible, kind of just lift your mood a little, but I’m really sensitive and I was having some visions”.
“I went for a walk” she went on, “and it felt like the plants and moon were communicating with me. This song just came pouring into my head. It’s about that beautiful, scary feeling of loving someone so much that you want to possess them and just allowing that madness to consume you for a bit”.
So, here’s what that sounds like when combined with some high-class 21st century pop production:
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