Biography
Pamela Valfer records under the name Kitty Craft and produces indie pop built around samples and a cozy atmosphere. Early efforts leaned on guitar and remained resolutely lo-fi before she adopted a denser, trip-hop-adjacent palette for the 1998 release Beats and Breaks from the Flower Patch. That album was followed by the more intricate Catskills in 2000 and one additional EP; afterward the project fell silent for many years until renewed attention prompted the 2022 compilation Mew (1996-2004).
The first appearance came in 1995 via a self-titled cassette on the storied Australian imprint Toytown. Both that cassette and the same year’s It’s Stupid EP were spare four-track recordings. Expansion began with 1997’s I Got Rulez, which moved to eight-track format and introduced keyboards and samplers. The growing interest in loops and samples reached full expression on the 1998 Kindercore album Beats and Breaks from the Flower Patch. March Records issued Catskills in 2000, and Sonic Syrup released the Hello Kitty Craft EP in 2004.
By 2020 the two albums had received digital editions and Lost Tapes, a set of previously unheard material, surfaced as well. Beats and Breaks slowly found new listeners and came to be viewed as a hidden treasure. Mew (1996-2004) gathered songs from nearly all of Kitty Craft’s earlier releases, placing most of them on vinyl for the first time.
The first appearance came in 1995 via a self-titled cassette on the storied Australian imprint Toytown. Both that cassette and the same year’s It’s Stupid EP were spare four-track recordings. Expansion began with 1997’s I Got Rulez, which moved to eight-track format and introduced keyboards and samplers. The growing interest in loops and samples reached full expression on the 1998 Kindercore album Beats and Breaks from the Flower Patch. March Records issued Catskills in 2000, and Sonic Syrup released the Hello Kitty Craft EP in 2004.
By 2020 the two albums had received digital editions and Lost Tapes, a set of previously unheard material, surfaced as well. Beats and Breaks slowly found new listeners and came to be viewed as a hidden treasure. Mew (1996-2004) gathered songs from nearly all of Kitty Craft’s earlier releases, placing most of them on vinyl for the first time.
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