Dealing in Antiques

This extraordinary twenty track collection from Finnish indie favorites Cats On Fire features sold-out EP and single tracks from the band's past, plus assorted rarities, unreleased tracks, and recent recordings too! Previous Cats On Fire albums The Province Complains (2007) and Our Temperance Movement (2009) earned the band favorable comparisons to indie legends The Smiths, Felt, Orange Juice and Pulp. The wonderfully generous Dealing in Antiques is a comprehensive collection of non-album tracks of various origins. Some of the songs were brought down from the attic, and some of them up from the cellar. Some were simply brought forward to a more prominent place in the house, while others were polished a bit. The album features two tracks from the band's Empty Town demo in 2002, six songs from limited edition and long sold out Finnish 7" singles Solid Work and Happiness is Chemistry from 2003 and 2004, and five tracks from the 2006 Draw in the Reins EP on fashionable Swedish imprint Fraction Discs. Among the album's unreleased tracks are four superb early recordings from 2004, an unreleased outtake from the Our Temperance Movement recording sessions in 2008, new song "The Hague" (previewed on the Matinée Grand Prix compilation in 2010), and a brand new cover version of the 1997 UK number one hit "Your Woman" from White Town. Spotlighting the brilliant evolution of Cats on Fire over the past eight years, Dealing in Antiques is an essential anthology from one of today's most popular indie groups.