Cat Ryan don’t follow any criteria, and it seems they are better off without one. The Newcastle three-piece have released their new single ‘Mary Shelley Song’ which is so difficult to pin down to a specific genre, but perhaps this is why Cat Ryan are flourishing. So often a new band will try too hard to fit a square peg in a round hole, but Cat Ryan are more than happy being the square peg that doesn’t want to fit in. Whatever the case, Cat Ryan appear to be paving the way for a new era of British dreamy indie-pop, and along the way they can be sure to amass quite the following.