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After spending the last 10+ years releasing tunes in The Decline, Australia's answer to the 90's Californian skate-punk movement, Pat Decline has announced something he's been threatening to do for a while now - a debut solo acoustic record entitled Nine Lives. Nine Lives contains nine stripped back, acoustic folk punk songs reminiscent of artists such has Jeff Rosenstock, Frank Turner, Dan P, Joe McMahon and Brendan Kelly, whilst not deviating too far from the songwriting style which The Decline have become known for. "A lot of these songs are about the experience of travelling around playing music" Pat Decline explains "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. 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" Nine Lives features