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Since Bethany Consentino came out about it, the flood has been pretty much non-stop. Cats are taking over the music industry, one artist at a time, and when they’re finally the overlords of the whole thing, it wouldn’t be a surprise to see Waskerley Way sitting pretty at the top of the pile. Early demos hinted at affection for felines, but now he seems unable to stop himself, with three of the eight tracks that make up his latest collection directly referencing the animals (sample titles: ‘Salome Cat’ and ‘Liero Cat’).

It’d be incredibly sad if all you take away from a listen to the twenty minutes that make up ‘Waterfall’ is that he’s probably spent a bit too much time indoors with his furry friends. Waskerley Way, or Michael Phillip Bridgewater to his friends, covers an enormous spectrum of sound in his music, darting between haunting synth, glowing electronic and troubling shoegaze, often within the space of a single song. The fact that he tries it makes him brave – that he pulls it off with aplomb is another matter entirely.

At his best, he’s almost unbeatable, with the Washed Out baiting Ghost Cat taking the stuttering body of chillwave and zapping it back into life, like Frankenstein, or the similarly bolshy Hyper Hazard being infinitely more daring that the dozens of laptop producers who’ve broke this year. With any luck, he’ll be bigger than LOLCats – thought you get the sense that Waskerley would mourn the passing of that particular landmark more than anything else.

Waterfall by Waskerley Way