KYOTO PROTOCOL Pussycat single (Self-released)
I caught this Malaysian band at last year’s Baybeats Festival and to be honest, was not that impressed. There was nothing sufficiently unique about them amongst the scores of card-carrying “indie-alternative” rock bands that play at the Baybeats Festival every year.
However, I am glad to say that based on this brand new single, I have revised my opinion about Kyoto Protocol somewhat. The band (Fuad Alhabshi – Vocal/Guitar Gael Oliveres – Keyboards/Vocals Shakeil Bashir – Bass/Vocals Hairi Haneefa – Lead Guitar) have delivered a song that is an intriguing mix of Tom Jones-channeling vocals, 80s post-punk guitars and Dylanesque put-down lyricism (I like the line – “Don’t need your shit, I can swallow mine” especially)
Pussycat has been formally released through the following channels:
- http://monsoon.my/
- http://www.popfolio.net/monsoonrecords
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Both are for online download at US$1.05 a pop. Recommended.
Official site
Typically for me, I would go AWOL for the last day of Baybeats, because it was on a Sunday and I used to have to get back to work on Monday. I’d be knackered usually as well. But since I don’t work on Monday this time around and as Celina and the Zozi were making their Baybeats debuts, I had to be there to bask in their respective successes! Yes!
Songs From The Year Of Our Demise 
Only You 
Face Control
