Action Cat
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"Action Cat" is a song by American musician and former My Chemical Romance frontman, Gerard Way. The song was released by Warner Bros. Records on June 11, 2014 as the promotional single from Way's debut studio album, Hesitant Alien.[2]
Composition and recording
DIY magazine commented that "some songs are born from the simplest of intentions [...]. But sometimes, songs are created because [...]. That's exactly how Gerard Way's new solo song started." Way, for his part, explained that "he started by simply wanting a song called "Action Cat". I was sitting and I thought of this name, action cat, and in my head I said, "Well, that would be a great song; How would it sound like 'Action Cat'? "So I took a guitar and started recording, and I thought: 'Action Cat' would sound like that".[3]
The singer has said: "It was a fast. That was a song that was just like, "Okay, it's going to be this way, and I want it to have a strum like The Ramones, so this sound wall is built, but I want it to be like My Bloody Valentine at it Time, and I want there to be these high tones."[3]
For the recording of "Action Cat" a Fender Blender pedal was used, as well as other fuzz effect pedals.[3]
Content
About the distorted sound of "Action Cat", Way has commented that he began "to try to get the way the Misfits sounded at first, as in Static age. I kept saying "you know? The battery has to sound like [trash]." We really look for that on this record." He also said that "I did not want it to sound like trash in a negative way, I wanted it to sound fantastic like garbage."[3]
On the letter of "Action Cat," Way said: "It is abstract but at the same time it feels like it is about starting over, which is a very direct thing. Much of it is quite abstract at the same time. I experimented a lot with the abstraction, as far as the letter, in this disc".[3]
Personnel
- Gerard Way – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
- Matt Gorney – bass guitar
- Ian Fowles – lead guitar
- James Dewees – keyboards, backing vocals
- Jarrod Alexander – drums
- Tom Rasulo – percussion