For their latest album, Someone’s Monster, New Orleans-based Americana outfit Loose Cattle moved their creative process completely in-house; focusing their efforts on the craft of songwriting itself. Bandleaders Michael Cerveris and Kimberley Kaye—a one-time couple, enduring friends, and lifelong working artists—put such an emphasis on character development and storyline because, well, they’ve spent most of their lives acting, singing, and playing, logging hours under stage lights on- and off-Broadway, in punk clubs and on Warped Tour stops, and in honky tonks and classic theaters country-wide. Out now on Single Lock Records, Somebody’s Monster finds Cerveris and Kaye writing their own roles and letting the stories take center stage. But, like any good ensemble, some talented friends were written in as well, folks like Lucinda Williams, members of Drive By Truckers, and the Grammy-winning Lost Bayou Ramblers.
While Loose Cattle share a long resume of glam flash and punk sweat, logged under the stage lights before and during their tenure in this particular band, they’re also inheritors of the progressive politics and compassionate humanity of the folk and country truth-tellers, past and present, who wrote songs like “Sam Stone,” “Co’dine,” “Down from Dover” and “Behind the Wall.” Throughout Someone’s Monster, Kaye and Cerveris trade off lead vocal duties to front songs about places like Louisiana's Cajun country and the music mecca of Muscle Shoals, laments on divorce and loss, odes to dollar-beer bars, and a stunning version of Lady Gaga’s “Joanne”; all steeped in the vibe and lore from the famed Dockside Studios where these songs were recorded.
Fans can stream or purchase Someone’s Monster in its entirety today at this link and visit loosecattleband.com for more information on the band and their new album.
