Kitty Craft - Catskills + Lost Tapes   [PREORDER]

Release date: 7/25/2025

First time on vinyl.

Limited edition of 1000 x 2xLP (Catskills transparent purple, Lost Tapes clear with gold swirl). Original cover art in gatefold jacket with OBI. This deluxe edition 2xLP includes Kitty Craft's second album Catskills, and third album Lost Tapes, plus three bonus tracks featured previously released on CD only.

Kitty Craft is Pamela Valfer.

Debuting in 1994 with the S/T cassette release on the Australian, Toytown label, and IT’S STUPID EP 7" in 1995, Pam’s sound was originally a low-tech affair. 1997’s I GOT RULEZ EP 7” expanded her sound with keys & sampler, leading to 1998 release of BEATS & BREAKS FROM THE FLOWER PATCH (originally released in the USA by Kindercore Records). In 2000, her 2nd full-length album, CATSKILLS followed on March Records in the USA. Both albums had Japanese tours and Japanese CD releases with Rock Records.

Around 2003/2004 after the completion of her 3rd Album... Pam dropped the mic, hung up her headphones, and put Kitty Craft into hibernation. The album was put down and filed away. Pam then focused on her visual and multimedia art, and career as an art professor.

In 2019, Kitty Craft woke from hibernation and quietly without fanfare, released Beats and Breaks from the Flower Patch and Catskills on all streaming & digital platforms. Followed soon after by Lost Tapes, a gem of an album, comprised exclusively of previously unreleased songs recorded as a full album in 2003, but was shelved never to see the light of day...until now.

In some kind of pandemic zeitgeist, along with stuff like Lofi Girl/ChilledCow, a 90's aesthetic resurgence, and the popularity of new and old vinyl records - Kitty Craft has been adopted by a whole new group of digital natives. Amazing and unexpected.

Valentine's Day 2022 brought us Kitty Craft's first full-length LP vinyl record... MEW (1994-2004), an anthology album with tracks spanning all eras... MEW, shows an artist with a clear vision from the start.

2023: Takotsubo Records brings you the expanded CD versions of the Kitty Craft discography. Starting with BEATS & BREAKS and LOST TAPES... Both include previously unreleased songs. Back at home with Darla Records for worldwide distribution!

2024: Darla Records releases the Deluxe Edition 2xLP of Beats and Breaks from the Flower Patch which includes Kitty Craft's first two EPs It's Stupid and I Got Rulez, the five bonus tracks featured on the new Takotsubo Records edition CD, and the Rock Records (Japan) CD bonus tracks. Original artwork on a gatefold jacket with a fancy obi card.

2025: Darla Records releases Catskills + Lost Tapes, a two album deluxe edition 2xLP bringing Kitty Craft’s second and third albums together on vinyl for the first time. Including bonus tracks that you probably haven’t heard!

Catskills track list:

A1. Comeback Queen
A2. Push Me Down
A3. How Long Can This Go On?
A4. Silver Lining
A5. My Head Falls Softly
B1. San Fran
B2. Top of the Key
B3. A Priori
B4. Catskills
B5. At the Charity Stripe
B6. Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out

Lost Tapes track list:

A1. 17 Is Such a Drag
A2. 11 Hours and 16 Days
A3. Tokyo in the Spring
A4. Devils Nine Questions (Bonnie Koloc Remix)
A5. Under The Apple Tree
B1. Goodbye
B2. Do You Still Love Me?
B3. Tonight (featuring Yoshinori Aoki)
B4. Blackburnian Warbler
B5. Fray
B6. Let It In