- 2025-10-27
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MUSIC
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CATTY Releases EP “Bracing For Impact”
London-based alt-pop singer-songwriter CATTY released her sophomore EP “Bracing For Impact” on October 24, 2025 via AWAL.
It marks her first project in a year since the 2024 EP “Healing Out of Spite”.
The EP comprises 6 tracks, produced by Nathan Challinor.
On the EP, CATTY is devastating and funny in equal measure, conjuring the rushes and wreckages of her world in vivid.
Sonically, the EP captures alt-rock bite and gothic glamour.
CATTY said of the EP, “I think I lived a year of my life trying to protect myself so much that I forgot to live. And this entire EP is basically me saying yeah, I'm shit scared of failing, I'm shit scared of getting hurt, I'm shit scared of no happy ending but I do owe myself a life. Bracing For Impact is basically me saying I'm here, I know who I am, I've been in this industry for ten years, put me on your stages! I'll sing my little heart out on them and you will see it drip from my sleeve. It's weird not to be writing break up songs right now, I really felt like that was my forte so if anyone wants me to slag off their boyfriend I am available to write for other people and I would enjoy that.”- CATTY explained some tracks for the EP.
“Joyride”
“Everything I write is unfortunately a little too true to life. I was in the studio with Nathan and Juliette (the co-writers) and I was telling them about this girl I'd met in the smoking area of a gig but I'd sworn off love for 14 months, hadn't even kissed anyone in a bar. I was done - love had chewed me up and spat me out but I couldn't stay away from her. So I tried what I think is called a situationship for all of two weeks (what the fuck is a situationship?) - I hated it. I've never been casual about anything and I would have followed her into the depths of hell. So Joyride is basically me saying, I'm all in, please don't hurt me.”
“Prized Possession”
“I think it's fair to say I have a flair for the dramatic because 'Prized Possession' is basically me saying if you're in love with me, kill the rest (metaphorically, of course.) I love with every fibre of my being, oftentimes to my detriment but 'Prized Possession' is definitely me saying please love me with everything you have in return.” -
“Make You Love Me”
“Make You Love Me is me casting a little spell. I love with every fibre of my being, and in the words of my lord and saviour Stevie Nicks: 'you will never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you.' - and you won't. I will write my little melodies and I will sing them for the rest of time. I'm such a hopeless romantic, a real f*cking idiot in love. I've descended from a long line of people who meet their match at a young age and hold their hands forever, which makes me see things as what I hope they are and not what they actually are sometimes - but I love being sensitive and soft and letting my heart lead me, even if it has famously taken me to the depths of hell, I will crawl back out again.”
“4am (Back in His Bed)”
“I wrote 4am about being someone's little play thing while she figured out if she liked her boyfriend or not. I've since realised this may be bit of a lesbian right of passage. Why have so many of us experienced this? And why does it make us feel good about ourselves to hear 'I don't like women but I like you.' It made me feel ten feet tall before it made me feel like the smallest person in the world. I've worked on my self esteem a lot since this happened but I still feel sad that I was ok with only being wanted sometimes - I never want to be that person again. It is actually such a sad song if you ignore the lyric 'eating me out when you've got food at home' which is hilarious.”
“Man on the Run”
“Man on the Run was written when I was f*cking knackered. I genuinely couldn't tell my arse from my elbow. I kept singing things into my phone but it all sounded awful to me, music wasn't making any sense. It's the first time I've ever left a writing session and said “I don't think I can write today.” I cried in the studio and I cried on the way home. Then my co-writers, Nathan and Juliette messaged me that evening with a voice note we had recorded that day and it was literally the verse, pre and chorus of Man on the Run and they basically just pulled me out of my self-deprecation and made us finish it. Now it's my favourite song, it's the purest song on there I think.”
Photo by Nat Traxel - source : Apple Music
