Seemingly taking all the best parts of Regina Spektor, Joni Mitchell and Nerina Pallot and twisting them into something very special indeed, Kat Flint is a Scottish singer/songwriter with a mesmerising presence about her.

GO FASTER STRIPES, the first single to be taken from her 2006 SECRET BOYS CLUB EP is an intoxicating taster, Kat Flint weaving glorious melody from the simplest of elements.  Over delicate guitar work and cascading piano chords, Flint swoons and croons her way through a song that's guaranteed to warm even the coldest of hearts.  Flipside JOSEPH ups the heartache and poignancy somewhat, Flint showing off a shimmering, understated side that beguiles.

WONKY and wonderful songstrel Kat Flint has signed to Albino Recordings and

releases ‘Go Faster Stripes’ on December 17th.

But any boy racers hoping for a musical homage to the XR3i, or a paean to

furry dice probably shouldn’t get too excited. The first release from the

Scottish storyteller/composer since 2006’s warmly received ‘Secret Boys’

Club’ EP, Go Faster Stripes is a tale of impatience, disasters and happy

accidents, set to a sound-track of Wild West saloon piano and a homemade

orchestra of snipping scissors and sticky tape.  Naturally.

Go Faster Stripes is backed by ‘Joseph’, a sideways look at the Nativity

through the eyes of Mary’s other half, whose best scenes were left on the

cutting room floor when the story of Our Lord’s birth was being edited.

Go Faster Stripes is the first single from Kat’s full—length debut ‘Dirty

Birds’ which is being produced by (Dave Fridmann protégé) David Peters and

is scheduled for spring 2008.

Albino’s Stephen Ellis says of Dirty Birds: “We can’t quite understand why

no-one has gazumped us on this one. It’s an astonishing record – it reminds

you why ‘singer-songwriter’ is not always a dirty word, and what powerful

tools lyrics can be in capable hands.  There are echoes of wordy songsmiths

like Sufjan Stephens and Joni Mitchell, but stamped with a fierce

individuality and a guerrilla attitude to production.  I think we just

overtook the bland troubadour bandwagon on foot.”

Albino, ‘a sort of conceptual model village for disorganised musicians’, is

already home to electro-kids-behind-the-bike-sheds Paw Paw and soundscape

architects Revere, both of whom have already put out limited – and fiercely

acclaimed – singles. Dirty Birds will be the first full album on the label.

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