Coursing #25: Drive(r)-A-Like?

(E! Online photo)	(press kit photo)	(MySpace photo)

Two Australian MCs, both women, both making me scratch my head about their physical resemblences to Minnie Driver. (Incidentally, who knew that Driver had recorded an album in the past year?)

One of the very first videos that showed up on my Last.FM dashboard was this sock-puppet screwball throwdown from Macromantics.  I was initially excited about this record and then forgot about it for a while ... so the video recommendation is quite a welcome reminder of one of the more unique releases of 2007.

And hot on her heels is CatCall. The current work is a far cry from Catherine Kelleher's days shouting and shrieking in no-wave noise merchants Kiosk (as documented in July 2006 by these Punkcast videos). It's unclear whether Kiosk's work on this planet is truly done -- the MySpace page is maintained regularly, but the "official" LiveJournal site hasn't been updated in over a year -- but CatCall is definitely headed front and center.

Listen to August:

I've managed to track down four CatCall songs, and my favorite so far is "August," a downbeat sung number with fantastic organ phrasing. The raps are also solid -- a little choppier and rougher than Macromantics' flow, but equally slamming.  Aussie music blogs Off The Record and Who The Bloody Hell Are They? naturally have the head start on (and my gratitude for) bringing CatCall to the world-at-large ... with any luck, she'll be wrecking all our sound systems with an official release in 2008.