The ever-evolving genre-bending India based project Peter Cat Recording Co. has announced a new album, BETA set for release August 9th via Muddy Water. Each release thus far has served as a temporal snapshot, capturing the members’ personal evolution since their last offering, a painting of the living and the lived. With their third installment, the group’s familial landscape expanded through marriage and childbirth. The band notes of the album: “BETA is a collection of stories about the future told 50 years in the past, to make sense of the present, on our only home, planet Earth.”
Produced by Suryakant Sawhney, Kartik Pillai, Dhruv Bhola, and Peter Cat Recording Co., BETA was one of five album titles that could have been. They wrote down all five, put them in a hat, and let the drummer Karan Singh’s 6-month-old son reach in and pick. BETA emerged, an endearing word for “Child” in Hindi. Peter Cat Recording Co.’s music mutates from album to album, with BETA forming a whimsical amalgamation of indie, bossa nova, jazz, psychedelic, and more. More will be revealed with the imminent first single coming May 16th.
The band has also announced a massive 77-date tour with a mix of Khruangbin support and headline dates. With Khruangbin dates throughout the year, their own headline shows will begin August 23rd in Boise ID, hitting Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and more before returning overseas for many more dates, capped off with a six-date Indian tour concluding December 28th in Bangalore. Tickets for their headline dates go on sale Thursday May 16th at 10:00 a.m. local time. Before then you can subscribe to their mailing list HERE for early access.
WATCH THE BETA ALBUM TRAILER
