“A lot of these songs are about the experience of travelling around playing music – the friends you make, the people you connect with, and maybe a little bit of the existential dread we all experience in these uncertain times.” Explains Pat Decline, frontman with Australian skate-punk exports The Decline, who he has been releasing tunes with for the last 10+ years. Now, after threatening to do so for a while, he’s just dropped his debut solo record ‘Nine Lives’ via independent Oz zine/label PEE Records. “There’s not much about cats on there, so I decided to go heavy with the cats theme for the artwork. There’s also a song called ‘Atomic Tomato’ on there ‘cause I’m hoping to get sponsored by Samboy Chips,” he adds. Alongside potential promotional pacts, D...