Catalan! Is the voice and music of Ewen Friers, a veritable wonder of the music world, being that he has toured with the likes of Laura Jane Grace (Against Me), Frank Lero and Thursday, the background is there to bring a wealth of life moments to the debut album ‘Veritas’. Why Catalan as a band name, well maybe track one gives us a tempting insight or at the very least a clue, ‘Roussillon Serenade’ with its whimsical melodies that are punctuated by the powerful in your face drum beats, all tied together with eclectic guitar riffs that feel worldly, the latter being something that throughout the whole album is a recurring theme, bringing a sound that would be at home in pretty much any continent that it laid its head. Anyway as to the Catalan connection, Roussillon is an area of southern F...