{"id":36794,"date":"2020-10-19T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/?p=36794"},"modified":"2020-10-16T12:19:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T16:19:58","slug":"quintron-and-miss-pussycat-goblin-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/quintron-and-miss-pussycat-goblin-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Quintron and Miss Pussycat Return With Their First Album Together in Almost a Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/qnmp1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/qnmp1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/qnmp1-324x215.jpg 324w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/qnmp1-416x276.jpg 416w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/qnmp1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/qnmp1-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/qnmp1-500x332.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/qnmp1-700x465.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On Lundi Gras, New Orleans duo Quintron and Miss Pussycat held their annual bash marking the day before Fat Tuesday in the French Quarter. This year, the theme was a crawfish boil, with Quintron dressed as a chef and Miss Pussycat and friends playing maracas in crawfish costumes. &#8220;It was really an amazing show and it was really the last show that we did,&#8221; says Miss Pussycat (aka Panacea Theriac) by phone from home in September. &#8220;We have the footage and it&#8217;s amazing and it&#8217;s all our friends that we can&#8217;t be around. It almost makes me cry to see it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Easter, the two donned their costumes again for a shoot in photographer Tony Campbell&#8217;s yard that would become the cover of their latest album, <em>Goblin Alert<\/em>, out on Friday, October 16. The footage from their February show was used in a new video for the album&#8217;s title track.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"QUINTRON AND MISS PUSSYCAT - &quot;Goblin Alert&quot; (official)\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZVFSAx7WVHY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been almost a decade since Quintron and Miss Pussycat have released a joint album, and the two return in full-force on <em>Goblin Alert<\/em> with a collection of energetic, psychedelic garage rock jams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Quintron and Miss Pussycat is never off the burner,&#8221; says Quintron by phone. But, in the years following the 2011 release <em><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/4BLto4w6oeWek9K4oCkOBJ?si=ypl22uVXTdSlkR19czJTZQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sucre du Sauvage<\/a><\/em>, the two became occupied with other projects. Quintron, who is also an inventor known for the Drum Buddy, started developing a new instrument called Weather Warlock, a drone synthesizer that unleashes sounds derived from the weather. &#8220;That&#8217;s been a big focus for the last several years,&#8221; he says of the project, which has also spawned its own band.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/2019-fall-tour-press-photo-by-Chris-Squire-scaled-e1602797951659-1024x682.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36813\"\/><figcaption>Photo Credit: Chris Squire<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Miss Pussycat, who is also a visual artist well known for her puppet shows, released <em><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/7HPogJ85fqsvQZPRY0Qf2v?si=GtATXMFvRvusSlkguMwtjA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Anthropomorphizer: Puppet Show Soundtracks<\/a>. <\/em>She currently has art on view at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webbartgallery.com\/#howdy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Webb Gallery<\/a> in Texas and as part of the group show, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pensacolamuseum.org\/humor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I Forgot to Laugh<\/a>&#8221; at Pensacola Museum of Art. For the latter, she made a series of papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 maracas filled with aquarium rocks that are resting on pillows, since, she says, &#8220;they can&#8217;t do a rock show.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/MissP-by-Allison-Green2018WEB-6-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36814\"\/><figcaption>Photo Credit: Allison Green<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In some ways, <em>Goblin Alert <\/em>came together in a fashion similar to other Quintron and Miss Pussycat releases. &#8220;We go through our life, we live our life and write these songs based on what we&#8217;re living and what we&#8217;re going through,&#8221; Quintron explains. &#8220;Then, when it comes time that we have enough of them, it&#8217;s time to make a record and time to think about them and sharpen the points and put it on tape and put it out.&#8221; Most of the songs on <em>Goblin Alert<\/em>, he adds, had been part of their live sets for at least a year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Opening track, &#8220;Teenagers Don&#8217;t Know Shit,&#8221; began as a song for another short-lived band and, Quintron explains, the portion of the song that begins with &#8220;My name is Jesus Christ and I&#8217;m an alcoholic,&#8221; was initially a separate song. &#8220;It was intentionally written with the exact same structure and the exact same chords, kind of with the intention of marrying them together,&#8221; he explains. As for the meaning of the song, he says, &#8221; I can say, for sure, I don&#8217;t mean that teenagers don&#8217;t know shit in any kind of finger-wagging, aggressive adult way.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another standout track, &#8220;Block the Comet,&#8221; was inspired by the Perseid meteor shower, which they saw while visiting Miss Pussycat&#8217;s family in rural Oklahoma. &#8220;It&#8217;s amazing,&#8221; she recalls. &#8220;You have to wait a long time and then you&#8217;ll see it and then you wait and then you&#8217;ll see another one.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 720px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1052197376\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/quintronandmisspussycat.bandcamp.com\/album\/goblin-alert\">Goblin Alert by Quintron and Miss Pussycat<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s different about <em>Goblin Alert<\/em> was the legitimacy of the recording process. They recorded at Pulp Arts Studio in Gainesville, Florida with producer Greg Cartwright. &#8220;It was very fancy, the nicest studio I&#8217;ve ever been,&#8221; says Miss Pussycat. They also brought in a few extra musicians, including guitarist Danny Clifton, talk-box artist Benny Divine and drummer Sam Yoger.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I love drum machines. I love electronic music and I love that mode because I&#8217;ve been doing it for so long, but this was in a real studio with tape and an engineer and somebody else is pressing all the buttons,&#8221; says Quintron. &#8220;Somebody else is deciding what microphone to use for what and I just had to be me and more just singer-songwriter person. Having a drummer made it even more like that because I wasn&#8217;t having to turn the machine on and off.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He adds, &#8220;Also, a live drummer, especially Sam Yoger, it&#8217;s like a big cushy pillow that you can fall into. That did something else to the songs that I really needed in my life, I guess.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dynamic gives the album a rollicking party vibe that can make you feel like you&#8217;re inside a sweaty Lundi Gras show like the one in the &#8220;Goblin Alert&#8221; video while you&#8217;re waiting for the return of tours. Better yet &#8211; the duo have just announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stageit.com\/quintron_miss_pussycat\/halloween_show_record_release_live_from_d_b_a\/89703\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Halloween Release Show<\/a> that will stream live from NOLA&#8217;s DBA. &#8220;I miss everybody and I cannot wait to go on tour again,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I&#8217;m already working on a puppet show for a year from now.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Check out Quintron and Miss Pussycat via their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quintronandmisspussycat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a> for ongoing updates.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Lundi Gras, New Orleans duo Quintron and Miss Pussycat held their annual bash marking the day before Fat Tuesday in the French Quarter. 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