Biography
Nathan Hewitt launched Cheatahs in 2009 as an intimate solo bedroom venture centered on his guitar and vocals. After leaving Morinville, the modest Canadian community outside Edmonton, he settled in London and briefly served as guitarist for Little Death. The lo-fi principles of that group shaped his own work, which opened with the wistful single "Warrior" issued on 7" through Young and Lost Club, until Hewitt suspended the project to tour as guitarist with Male Bonding.
The name itself arose from Hewitt's confession that he had been "cheating" on his prior band. He enlisted John Arthur Webb of Male Bonding and Nell Eu of Screaming Tea Party to translate the material to the stage, before the 2012 arrival of James Wignall from Weird Dreams on guitar and vocals, Dean Reid on bass and vocals, and Marc Raue on drums completed the quartet.
Marshall Teller Records, a label Hewitt had aided by designing its first logo in 2010, released the Coared EP in June of that year; its sound fused the textures of Dinosaur Jr. with Elliott Smith's brooding introspection. Extended Plays arrived in 2013, eight years after Cheatahs were formed, gathering the two preceding limited-edition EPs Coared and Sans.
Five years on, the band finished its first album, a self-titled set engineered by Reid and produced collectively, which Wichita Records issued in February 2014. After a European and U.S. tour supporting the debut, the musicians returned to the studio later that year. The outcome, the EP Sunne, was revealed in November and appeared in early 2015. Mid-2015 brought another EP, Murasaki, prompted by the writings of 11th-century Japanese author Murasaki Shikibu; its title track later surfaced on Mythologies, the group's second full-length album, which emerged that October.
The name itself arose from Hewitt's confession that he had been "cheating" on his prior band. He enlisted John Arthur Webb of Male Bonding and Nell Eu of Screaming Tea Party to translate the material to the stage, before the 2012 arrival of James Wignall from Weird Dreams on guitar and vocals, Dean Reid on bass and vocals, and Marc Raue on drums completed the quartet.
Marshall Teller Records, a label Hewitt had aided by designing its first logo in 2010, released the Coared EP in June of that year; its sound fused the textures of Dinosaur Jr. with Elliott Smith's brooding introspection. Extended Plays arrived in 2013, eight years after Cheatahs were formed, gathering the two preceding limited-edition EPs Coared and Sans.
Five years on, the band finished its first album, a self-titled set engineered by Reid and produced collectively, which Wichita Records issued in February 2014. After a European and U.S. tour supporting the debut, the musicians returned to the studio later that year. The outcome, the EP Sunne, was revealed in November and appeared in early 2015. Mid-2015 brought another EP, Murasaki, prompted by the writings of 11th-century Japanese author Murasaki Shikibu; its title track later surfaced on Mythologies, the group's second full-length album, which emerged that October.
Albums
Singles
