loading . . . New Audio: Rising Welsh Artist CATTY Shares Pulsating and Swooning âMake You Love Meâ CATTY is a rising Caernarfon, Wales, UK-born, London-based artist, whose work is steeped in Welsh folklore, shaped by a lifetime of doomed crushes and anchored by a flair for the dramatic and a steadfast refusal to soften her edges.  âBeing Welsh seeps through my veins â it feels like a punch in the gut when people donât know Iâm Welsh,â she says. âIâm just writing about my life and I happen to be a massive lesbian. If I didnât say âsheâ in my songs, I wouldnât be writing honest music â and whatâs the point in that?â The Caernarfon-born, London-based artist's debut EP, last year's Healing Out of Spite received praise from NME, Popjustice, Dork Magazine, Clash Magazine, Official Charts, DIY Magazine and a lengthy list of others, while being championed by BBC Radio 1 personalities Jodie Bryant, Mollie King and Maia Beth. Adding to a breakthrough year, her debut headline show sold-out in 15 minutes. She also opened for Dylan McCarthy, Beth McCarthy -- and she opened for the legendary Stevie Nicks at BST Hyde Park. The rising Welsh-born artist closed the year out with a sold-out show at London's Lafayette. This year CATTY has played sets at Birmingham Pride, London Pride, Latitude Festival, Reeperbahn Festival and the Women's Rugby World Cup. And building upon a growing profile, her highly-anticipated, six-song, sophomore EP Bracing For Impact is slated for an October 24, 2025 release through AWAL. The EP will feature the previously released "4am (Back in His Bed)," "Joyride," and "Prized Possession." Throughout the EP's six-songs, the rising Welsh artist tells stories of queer love discovery, of desire, pain, resilience and ultimately hope. In many ways, the EP's material is a total embodiment of queer life, capturing the euphoria, bruises and ache of her personal experience -- but while pulling at something profoundly universal. "I think I lived a year of my life trying to protect myself so much that I forgot to live. And this entire EP is basically me saying yeah, I'm shit scared of failing, I'm shit scared of getting hurt, I'm shit scared of no happy ending but I do owe myself a life," CATTY says. "Bracing For Impact is basically me saying I'm here, I know who I am, I've been in this industry for ten years, put me on your stages! Iâll sing my little heart out on them and you will see it drip from my sleeve. Itâs weird not to be writing break up songs right now, I really felt like that was my forte so if anyone wants me to slag off their boyfriend I am available to write for other people and I would enjoy that." Bracing For Impact's final, pre-release single "Make You Love Me" opens with a swelling and dramatic string introduction before quickly morphing into a slickly produced, pulsating pop tune that channels Kate Bush and Stevie Nicks while showcasing the Welsh artist's big, pop belter delivery and her penchant for big, euphoric hooks. "Make You Love Me" is rooted in a deeply lived in portrait of a narrator, desperately clinging to hope after a series of crushing disappointments, and steadfastly determined to rewrite the bitter endings of her previous love affairs, situationships and flings to the happily ever after that she deserves. It's a swooning mix of desperation, desire and pride of the heartbroken and lovelorn romantic. "'Make You Love Me' is me casting a little spell," the rising Welsh-born, London-based artist says. "I love with every fibre of my being, and in the words of my lord and saviour Stevie Nicks: 'you will never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you' - and you wonât. I will write my little melodies and I will sing them for the rest of time. Iâm such a hopeless romantic, a real f*cking idiot in love. Iâve descended from a long line of people who meet their match at a young age and hold their hands forever, which makes me see things as what I hope they are and not what they actually are sometimes - but I love being sensitive and soft and letting my heart lead me, even if it has famously taken me to the depths of hell, I will crawl back out again." https://joyofviolentmovement.com/new-audio-rising-welsh-artist-catty-shares-pulsating-and-swooning-make-you-love-me/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social