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 The latest three piece to power onto the music scene is Melbourne’s Something For Kate.  With the triangular dynamics in full effect, the group - singer/guitarist Paul Dempsey, bassist Julian Carroll and drummer Clint Hyndman - know how to burnish atmospherics into raging noise.  Dempsey’s vocals on their debut EP for Murmur Records, ....The Answer to Both Your Questions, are anguished and evocative (“I used to tie double knots, but now I couldn’t be fucked,” he sings on Clint), which is one of the reasons they carry such a heavy rep out of their home town.  And as their first round of interstate touring proved, they can back it up live.  This change is a welcome one.
Rolling Stone:
The Buzz
 As tense as the Grifters, as dramatic as Tortoise, and as forceful as... well nearly as forceful as the Jesus Lizard.  And that’s only half the picture when it comes to Melbourne’s Something For Kate.  Given those comparisons, it’s not surprising to learn the band has found a common ally in Big Heavy Stuff’s Greg Atkinson.  Acting as producer, Atkinson has retained the spark of the band’s live performance.  Vocalist/guitarist Paul Dempsey possesses a measure of Atkinson’s angst and a similar ability to eliminate the whine in his delivery.  The opener, Subject to change, has some strikingly fluid guitar lines, while the gentler Higher than you think is equally triumphant thanks in part to Sophie Wheeler’s washes of cello.  Nothing less than impressive.
      Richard Kingsmill/Triple J’s Oz Music Show
Form Guide - June 1996 (issue 32):
Everything about this band points towards them becoming very big in a very short time from now.  They have established a reputation as one of Melbourne’s best live bands, which is no easy task in this city.  Now they have the resources of Murmur behind them, it seems only a matter of time before they “make it big” all over Australia.  This EP captures the intensity and atmosphere of their live shows and should satisfy their fans from these gigs and bring them many new ones as well.  While not overwhelmingly radio-friendly, RRR and PBS will undoubtedly give it the thrashing it deserves and I would expect it to get fairly heavy exposure on JJJ as well, which has led to the success of many other Australian bands.
The album was produced by Greg Atkinson of Big Heavy Stuff and BHS fans should get into this album although Something For Kate are a lot more serious and brooding at times, but not in a bad way.  I would never have picked the similarities in the sound if it hadn’t been pointed out to me, but now I can see they are definitely there.
Overall, this EP is of a consistently high standard and does not contain a bad track, although critics could say that the tracks (especially the beginnings) do start to sound quite similar towards the end.  I would love to be in Something For Kate’s shoes in the next 6 months because this is one of the best debut EP’s I’ve heard in a long time and things can only get better for them from here.