Gato Negro

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Gato Negro
Gato Negro cover.jpg
Studio album by
7 Year Bitch
ReleasedMarch 12, 1996
RecordedOctober 1995
Genre Punk rock
Length35:00
Label Atlantic
Producer
  • Billy Anderson
  • 7 Year Bitch
7 Year Bitch chronology
¡Viva Zapata!
(1994)		Gato Negro
(1996)		Live at Moe
(2016)
Singles from Gato Negro
  1. "Miss Understood"
    Released: January 1996 [1]
  2. "The History of My Future"
    Released: March 1996 [2]
  3. "24,900 Miles Per Hour"
    Released: June 18, 1996 [3]
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Alternative Press Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Christgau's Consumer Guide Five Pointed Star Solid.svg [6]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Entertainment Weekly C [8]

Gato Negro (Spanish: "Black Cat") is the second and final studio album by American rock band 7 Year Bitch, released on March 12, 1996. It was the band's only album released through Atlantic Records, after signing to the label in 1994. [9] [10]

Contents

The record spawned three singles: "The History of My Future", "24,900 Miles Per Hour" and "Miss Understood", [11] as well as a video for "24,900 Miles Per Hour".

Critical reception

Gato Negro received mixed reviews from critics. Eric Bensel of Alternative Press wrote that although while the album was "at times a generic grunge [ sic ] fronted by the predictable riot grrrl snarl", it provided a "refreshing foil to the testosterone-laden cock-rock that has dominated AOR radio stations for the past 25 years". [5] Entertainement Weekly critic Mike Flatherty dismissed the album as "a humorless clutch of tough-grrrl conventions and abrasive bluster". [8] In her review of Live at Moe (2016), Pitchfork 's Estelle Tang called Gato Negro "simultaneously less scrappy and less compelling" than the band's previous albums. [12] In a positive review for Trouser Press , Grant Alden called the album 7 Year Bitch's "most varied, accomplished and coherent outing", praising its instrumentation. [13]

Track listing

All songs written by Vigil/Davis
  1. "The History of My Future" 2:14
  2. "Crying Shame" 4:09
  3. "Disillusion" 3:05
  4. "Deep in the Heart" 3:02
  5. "The Midst" 3:29
  6. "24,900 Miles Per Hour" 3:27
  7. "Whoopie Cat" 3:02
  8. "Miss Understood" 3:07
  9. "Sore Subject" 2:06
  10. "Rest My Head" 2:57
  11. "2nd Hand" 1:44
  12. "Jack" 2:36

Personnel

Adapted from liner notes. [14]

7 Year Bitch

Production

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  5. 1 2 Bensel, Eric (May 1996). "7 Year Bitch: Gato Negro". Alternative Press . Vol. 10, no. 94. pp. 89, 91.
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  8. 1 2 Flaherty, Mike (March 29, 1996). "Gato Negro". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved October 27, 2017.
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