Prairie Cat can’t stand when the music sounds the same

Between then and now, Cary Pratt has been lending his considerable skills to Mounties (alongside Hawksley Workman and Steve Bays of Hot Hot Heat) and Roger Dean Young and The Tin Sea. Returning to the studio with long time collaborator Ryan Dahle (Limblifter, Hot Hot Heat) completed work on his fourth album Prairie Cat Is Cary Pratt.

Much of the inspiration for the new album came from a troubling discovery on the first day of a Hawaiian beach holiday. "Finding a body definitely changes the record you were planning on making," Pratt observes of the incident. It was a moment that resulted in Pratt leaving work in order to concentrate more on writing and playing, coupled with a new found determination to speak his mind without holding back.

"Leave A Note" is the first track to be taken from the record: a breezy, offbeat summer swoon of a song that proves that Pratt’s knack with a pop hook is back with a vengeance, channelling the likes of Randy Newman, Jim O’Rourke and fellow Vancouverite Dan Bejar along the way. The sleepy, rolling Rhodes and mellow horn section takes on a touch of darkness when paired with the Scott Matthews directed video below.