CATFISH – Time To Fly (2025) *HQ*
”Time To Fly” is the final chapter in ten glorious years of CATFISH‘s legacy. This is the final album from the English band recorded with singer, songwriter & guitarist Matt Long who lost his bravely fought battle with cancer at age 29 in November of 2024.
Remaining members Paul Long (Matt’s father, and keyboardist / vocalist in the band), Adam Pyke (bass), and Phil Wilson (drums), made the decision to carry on in the completion of this final LP, comprised one half of the music that they were working on in the studio until Matt passed away, and the other half is from recordings discovered a few moths ago. It contains two unfinished songs, and two that were recorded live, where Matt Long’s vocals were isolated and used on the studio cuts we hear here.
If you never heard CATFISH, this band play blues-rock, with emphasis in rock – on the uptempo tracks there’s a huge groove as well. ”Time To Fly” has a big sound, something that CATFISH had established from the get-go. The hard rockiness of Matt’s guitar playing and his vocals twinned with the Blues side of Paul, a perfect combination.
Two songs that Matt had demoed on his computer, ‘Sick Of It All’, and ‘Say The Word’, are the most intense and profoundly moving songs of the album. The sheer emotion pouring through Matt’s guitar and vocals with the rest of the band bringing up the rear, is as close to perfection from a musical standpoint as you are ever likely to get.
This final album from CATFISH is the finest bunch of songs they have ever written. It will serve as a musical memorial for Matt, but overall, it will mark the band as a force of nature, a Blues/Rock powerhouse.
01 – Time To Fly
02 – Change My Ways
03 – Don’t Turn Around
04 – Sick Of It All
05 – Forevermore And Again
06 – Lost In Autumn
07 – Breaking Up Somebody’s Home
08 – Broken Halo
09 – Say The Word
Matt Long (guitar, vocals)
Paul Long (keyboards, vocals)
Adam Pyke (bass)
Phil Wilson (drums)
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