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Birchville Cat Motel

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Birchville Cat Motel is the artist name for which noise monger Campbell Kneale first garnered some critical acclaim. His own blend of out-of-this-world noises and layers and layers of resonant drones were something quite unheard of before. To think he comes from a country renowned for it's peculiar underground noise bands (Dead C, Gate to name but two), it is surprising it took so long for Kneale to emerge and get some recognition.

His earlier efforts were much louder and harsher than his later works; but as his career progressed, so did his sound. From a cold and uninviting blizzard of thick noise, it matured drastically and with time, a sense of dramatics has established itself within the thick layered drones. New, strange and exciting sounds surfaced and gave the noise an exotic touch which kept it from becoming tedious. Kneale has always been extremely prolific releasing album after album under the Birchville Cat Motel moniker; usually in very small editions (not unlike Acid Mothers Temple) on his own Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon label (which is also responsible for releasing albums by Kemialliset Ystävät and Simon Wickham-Smith). But he is also known for his works under his own name, his collaborations and various other artist names he has used through the years on both his and other labels. No need to say his body of work is huge, just like his sound. Elements of doom metal have recently surfaced in his work and he's even put together a new label, Battlecruiser, dedicated to these metal tendencies.

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Album Cover Birchville Cat Motel
Label: Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon
Release: 1997
Format: CD
Cat. no: None

Song list:

  1. Cast Iron Teether (8:07)
  2. So Sad Doll (10:52)
  3. Rimrider (11:54)
  4. Allandale Triple Culvert (10:36)
  5. Twelve Roses High (14:44)
  6. Transparent Soul Fragment (6:54)


Album Cover Blankangelspace
Label: Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon
Release: 2000
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: None

Song list:

  1. Untitled (18:37)
  2. Untitled (39:57)


Album Cover Swarming Tamagotchi Plague
Label: Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon
Release: 2000
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: None

Song list:

  1. Untitled (45:12)
  2. Untitled (8:37)


Album Cover Crop Circle Empires
Label: Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon
Release: 2000
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: None

Song list:

  1. Crop Circle Empires (44:23)


Album Cover Shapeshifter
Label: Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon
Release: 2000
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: None

Song list:

  1. Untitled (12:39)
  2. Untitled (13:24)
  3. Untitled (22:57)
  4. Untitled (9:09)
  5. Untitled (13:28)


Album Cover We Count These Prayers...
Label: Corpus Hermeticum
Release: 2001
Format: CD
Cat. no: HERMES 037

Song list:

  1. Another Miners Light (18:51)
  2. Slow Vehicle Bay (11:09)
  3. We Count These Prayers (As They Are Recited) (10:12)
  4. Lazy Bones Digger (4:38)
  5. Shapeshifter (18:52)


Album Cover Creeping Frost Onset
Label: Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon
Release: 2002
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: None

Song list:

  1. Creeping Frost Onset (54:18)


Album Cover Long Vanished Spirals
Label: Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon
Release: 2002
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: None

Song list:

  1. White Alpha Matte (5:55)
  2. Fountain & The Love Of Tokyo (5:41)
  3. Childrens Prayer To The Fourteen Good Angels (7:40)
  4. A House Of Sticks For Owls (10:40)
  5. Invisible (6:55)
  6. Glamourpuss (6:31)
  7. Doverider (4:17)
  8. Stars Arc On The Gigantic Skyward Axis (8:22)
  9. Cyan Dream Net (4:01)


Album Cover September
Label: Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon
Release: 2002
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: None

Song list:

  1. September (59:03)


Album Cover Zenkoji
Label: Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon
Release: 2002
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: None

Song list:

  1. Zenkoji (29:44)


Album Cover Home
Label: Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon
Release: 2002
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: None

Song list:

  1. Home (40:23)


Album Cover Vespertine
Label: Last Visible Dog Records
Release: 2002
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: LVD 022

Song list:

  1. Vespertine (45:18)


Album Cover Mighty Spine Catcher
Label: Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon
Release: 2003
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: None

Song list:

  1. These Darkening Orbits (5:48)
  2. Mighty Spine Catcher (7:12)
  3. Lollypink Cul-De-Sac (7:24)
  4. Chinese Scarlet Of Dying Birds (11:51)
  5. Golden Karma Shovel (11:38)
  6. Pale Arch Nemesis (4:59)


Album Cover Copenhagen
Label: Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon
Release: 2003
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: None

Song list:

  1. Copenhagen (43:01)


Album Cover Summer's Seething Pulse
Label: Mar/ino
Release: 2003
Format: CD
Cat. no: M/I005

Song list:

  1. Sleep June Slope (9:58)
  2. Seven Paper Lanterns (24:47)
  3. Summer's Seething Pulse (17:58)


Album Cover Beautiful Speck Triumph
Label: Last Visible Dog Records
Release: 2004
Format: 2CD
Cat. no: LVD 053/54

Song list:

CD 1:
  1. White Ground Elder (30:32)
  2. Trembling Frost Spires (18:31)
  3. Speck Fears (19:21)
CD 2:
  1. It's More Fun To Compute (5:56)
  2. The Romance Of Certain Old Clothes (19:51)
  3. Beautiful Speck Triumph (36:38)


Album Cover With Maples Ablaze
Label: Scarcelight Recordings
Release: 2004
Format: CD
Cat. no: SLR21

Song list:

  1. Untitled (1:57)
  2. Untitled (7:19)
  3. Untitled (2:00)
  4. Untitled (12:39)
  5. Untitled (2:38)
  6. Untitled (10:43)
  7. Untitled (8:03)
  8. Untitled (5:21)
  9. Untitled (12:28)
  10. Untitled (7:39)


Album Cover Chi Vampires
Label: Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon
Release: 2005
Format: CD
Cat. no: None

Song list:

  1. Blonde Moth Burial (10:48)
  2. Buckling Metal Snowflakes (28:52)
  3. Cold Herds Travel (10:11)
  4. Chi Vampires (14:58)


Album Cover Firepower Fragrant Cloud
Label: Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon
Release: 2005
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: None

Song list:

  1. Gigantic Planetary Collapse (32:14)
  2. Firepower Fragrant Cloud (29:32)


Album Cover Chaos Steel Skeletons "One"
Label: Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon
Release: 2006
Format: 2CD-R
Cat. no: None

Song list:

CD 1:
  1. White Alpha Matte (5:58)
  2. Dog Pus Halo (4:11)
  3. Trinity High Water Mark 2 (6:35)
  4. Beautiful When You Sleep (4:31)
  5. White Beta Matte (5:15)
  6. Dayglo Space Racer (8:14)
  7. Glamourpuss 1 (9:24)
  8. Twin God Babies (13:54)
CD 2:
  1. Prayer Chain Fervour (13:39)
  2. Cyclops Super Trike (15:50)
  3. Self Drive Taxi Room (3:54)
  4. Wonder Horse Trigger (6:34)
  5. Severing The Silver Cord (7:45)
  6. Sun (9:04)


Album Cover Chaos Steel Skeletons "Two"
Label: Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon
Release: 2006
Format: 2CD-R
Cat. no: None

Song list:

CD 1:
  1. Beekeeper (8:17)
  2. Airlike Metal Web (7:53)
  3. The Immaculate Perfume Of Freshly Sawn Timber (9:09)
  4. Untitled (2:37)
  5. An Emperor Ascension (12:33)
  6. Invisible 1 (7:03)
  7. Invisible 2 (6:25)
  8. Wet Crimson Eternity (1:34)
CD 2:
  1. North Slope Tundra (16:48)
  2. Bone China Brittle (16:17)
  3. Curds Of Tender Brain Fall From Slack Jaws (6:43)
  4. Cyclamen (9:19)
  5. Chihuahua (5:47)
  6. Ice Arch Return (7:53)


Album Cover Chaos Steel Skeletons "Three"
Label: Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon
Release: 2006
Format: 2CD-R
Cat. no: None

Song list:

CD 1:
  1. Chinese Automative Dismantler (5:25)
  2. Mercury Vapour Lamp (5:13)
  3. Tinfoilteeth (7:07)
  4. Supernaut (2:39)
  5. Glamourpuss 2 (6:32)
  6. Endless Power Sea (6:56)
  7. Cranes Are Sleeping (8:17)
  8. Sex Layer Cake (10:00)
CD 2:
  1. A Muslin Veil Of Bravery (16:41)
  2. Thus Passes The Glory Of The World (18:46)
  3. Clean Shaven Apostle (18:36)
  4. Serpentine Writhing Score (9:55)


Album Cover Curved Surface Destroyer
Label: Last Visible Dog Records
Release: 2006
Format: 3CD
Cat. no: LVD 105/106/107

Song list:

CD 1:
  1. Reversing Spiral Galaxies (27:54)
  2. Fairy Teeth (29:46)
CD 2:
  1. Zenkoji (Mounted Archers Fortress) (30:13)
  2. Copenhagen (40:52)
CD 3:
  1. Drawn Towards Chanting Hordes (29:51)
  2. Kanji Email Dreaming (30:58)


Album Cover Our Love Will Destroy The World
Label: Pseudo Arcana
Release: 2006
Format: CD
Cat. no: PACD075

Song list:

  1. Heavens Flaming Horse (7:03)
  2. 55,000 Flowers For The Hero (15:51)
  3. Lay Thy Hatred Down (3:18)
  4. Double Cascade Mini Fantasy (5:04)
  5. Our Love Will Destroy The World (11:28)


Album Cover Small Christian Victories
Label: Diagnosis... Don't Recordings
Release: 2006
Format: 3"CD-R
Cat. no: DONT013

Song list:

  1. Small Christian Victories (14:42)


Album Cover Bees & Wasps
Label: Beyond Repair Records
Release: 2006
Format: CS
Cat. no: BEYOND REPAIR 014

Song list:

  1. Bees (14:47)
  2. Wasps (14:57)


Album Cover Her Anger Is Limitless
Label: Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon
Release: 2007
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: None

Song list:

  1. Her Anger Is Limitless (28:19)


Album Cover Bird Sister Blasphemy
Label: Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon
Release: 2007
Format: CD
Cat. no: None

Song list:

  1. Powder Slave (7:21)
  2. Tonal Fire Antichrist (4:31)
  3. Piss Perfume Overkill (7:58)
  4. Bird Sister Blasphemy (6:01)


Album Cover Birds Call Home Their Dead
Label: Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon
Release: 2007
Format: CD
Cat. no: None

Song list:

  1. Birds Call Home Their Dead (26:38)
  2. Kissing Dragon (7:50)
  3. Her Anger Is Limitless (26:38)


Album Cover Seventh Ruined Hex
Label: Important Records
Release: 2007
Format: CD
Cat. no: IMPREC169

Song list:

  1. Ghastly Star (13:18)
  2. Werewolf Shorn Of It's Hell (4:53)
  3. Iron Goddess O'Mercy (10:15)
  4. Seventh Ruined Hex (5:44)
  5. Bee (17:01)


Album Cover Astro Catastrophies
Label: Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon
Release: 2007
Format: 3CD-R
Cat. no: None

Song list:

CD-R 1:
  1. Sublime Prince Of The Royal Secret (17:24)
  2. Driving Golden Dopamine (14:08)
  3. Divinity Soldiers (16:58)
CD-R 2:
  1. Damn Infinity Hairtie II (4:47)
  2. Cast Iron Bling Bling (19:55)
  3. Driving Black Seratonin (15:03)
  4. Four Freckle Constellation (9:35)
CD-R 3:
  1. We Flare Into Scarlet (16:38)
  2. Hell's Silver Titans (16:12)
  3. Damn Infinity Hairtie (17:03)


Album Cover Gunpowder Temple Of Heaven
Label: Pica Disk
Release: 2008
Format: CD
Cat. no: PICA004

Song list:

  1. Gunpowder Temple Of Heaven (40:49)


Album Cover Four Freckle Constellation
Label: Conspiracy Records
Release: 2008
Format: LP
Cat. no: CORE059

Song list:

  1. Damn Infinity Hairtie (4:47)
  2. Four Freckle Constellation (9:57)
  3. White Petal Carpet (4:04)
  4. Goliath Birdeater (10:29)
  5. Stories Of Fallen Aristocrats (4:26)
  6. Yellow Soul Reversal (5:33)


Album Cover Second Curved Surface Destroyer
Label: Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon
Release: 2008
Format: 3CD-R
Cat. no: None

Song list:

CD 1:
  1. Rochester Sloppy Plate (24:51)
  2. Chicago Deep Dish (29:49)
CD 2:
  1. Junkshop Rainbow Superserpent (29:00)
  2. Hong Kong Abracadabra (19:49)
  3. Small Christian Victories (14:59)
CD 3:
  1. Dead Call Home Their Birds (36:31)
  2. Gunpowder Church Of Satan (30:55)