LoneLady - Cattletears

What this video is

Released in the orbit of LoneLady's debut album Nerve Up (Warp Records, February 2010), 'Cattletears' exists within a precise cultural moment when post-punk minimalism was undergoing critical reappraisal in British indie music. Julie Campbell, a Fine Art graduate who began recording on 4-track cassette in a Manchester tower block, embodied a DIY ethos that the NME linked to a lineage running through Joy Division,…

Why it matters

As a track from LoneLady's debut, 'Cattletears' is a document of the British post-punk revival's DIY fringe circa 2009–2010, occupying a niche between Warp's experimental credibility and the raw, trebly minimalism of early-80s Manchester post-punk. Its music video — characterised by near-total…