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‘Her lyrics are universal yet hauntingly fresh: intelligent and spunky, literary and unpretentious. Her voice is ethereal and fragile, yet has moments where it is so strong it can rip your guts out.’
- INPRESS MAGAZINE (Live review)
Praise for Gloriosa:
‘Gloriosa is an album which should cement Catherine Traicos and The Starry Night as a serious force in Australian music with a bit of luck and a bit of airplay.
Gloriosa deserves your attention, and Traicos and her band are in for a bright future.’
- liveguide.com.au
‘Traicos’ distinctive rasping vocals drift like campfire smoke over these rootsy arrangements, which range from languid, sunbaked sprawls to the lilting pop of Beg For Love. As a lyricist, she has always excelled in well-observed portraits of heartbreak and dodgy boyfriends, but there’s a new lightness to her work here that makes for particularly good company. Given her unique throat and a gift for a timeless melody, it isn’t at all unfair to mention Traicos in the same breath as equally idiosyncratic artists such as Suzanne Vega, Hope Sandoval or, closer to home, Clare Bowditch.’
- The Weekly Review Pick of the Week
‘Clear a space on your coffee table, as this year’s coffee table album has arrived. Buy a copy for yourself and at the same time, buy another copy for someone else you know who loves music, and with a good bottle of wine, prepare to be drawn into Gloriosa.’
- Country HQ
‘Her songs hit close to the bone, stirring something deep within the listener, and lingering long in your consciousness. Gloriosa is a wonderful record: stirring, delicate, quietly powerful and very moving.’
- Time Off Magazine Album of the Week
‘Is Sydney singer/ songwriter Catherine Traicos the best new talent this country has to offer at the moment? This writer – admittedly somewhat smitten, but still – thinks that she probably is… Gloriosa still displays Traicos’ trademark heart-rending writing skills and is infused with a musicality and a commanding third album poise that marks it out assuredly for True Masterpiece status.’
- Inpress
Praise for Beg For Love (Single Release):
It’s music made with an old-style care – even encouraging you in the credits to find a good stereo on which to listen to it, to fully appreciate the depths of it. With a now settled band, it is crafted stuff, the subtle instrumentation knowing its place cradling her voice. Throw in the expressive pedal steel of the estimable Jason Walker on the ‘B-side, Baby Don’t Cry, and you have something of class beyond its indie status. Shiny.
- Ross Clelland – Drum Media
“Fantastically subdued singer/ songwriter Catherine Traicos has upped the pop factor on her latest single Beg For Love, but not without keeping the morose undertones that bring such character to her tracks. “
- DRUM MEDIA
Praise for The Amazing:
“…redolent in parts of the ragged, eerie estrogen blues of PJ Harvey or the gaunt bluegrass sonnets of Gillian Welch”
- THE MELBOURNE (AGE) MAGAZINE, October 2009, Album of the Month
“Quite simply, it has superstar (with integrity) written all over it… Traicos is destined for big, honourable things. ‘The Amazing’ is an important step in that journey – an important record – as well as the heralding of a valuable new talent, and real music fans would be mad not to own it”
- Tony McMahon, INPRESS MAGAZINE
“If vocals reminiscent of Beth Orton gets your sausage sizzling, and you’re in to some gentle country with top lyrical construction, give this amazing disc a red hot go. Gently rhythmic, this release gets under your skin with such subtlety that the resulting itch propels you to listen and listen and then give it a few more spins”
- Jenny O’Keefe, CHERRIE MAGAZINE
‘Impressive on all levels’
- FORTE MAGAZINE
Praise for Gone:
“There is a gorgeously fragile quality to Catherine Traicos. Maybe it is testament to what she calls “the countless ex-boyfriends who inspired the songs”. Just between us, although I offer my sympathies, I’m also rather glad for the inspiration!
But there is strength, resolution and even transformation present. And even though the subject matter exposes some tender wounds it is impossible to ignore the simple melodies, Catherine’s sensual, husky delivery and the loose arrangements that make this a very compelling album.
And if you want an anthem for life, the song The Sweet Life, couldn’t be better!”….
- John Carver, PBS FM