| Gato Negro | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | 7 Year Bitch |
| Cover: | Gato Negro cover.jpg |
| Released: | March 12, 1996 |
| Recorded: | October 1995 |
| Genre: | Punk rock |
| Label: | Atlantic |
| Prev Title: | ¡Viva Zapata! |
| Prev Year: | 1994 |
| Next Title: | Live at Moe |
| Next Year: | 2016 |
Gato Negro (Spanish: "Black Cat") is the third 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.[1] [2]
The record spawned three singles: "The History of My Future", "24,900 Miles Per Hour" and "Miss Understood",[3] as well as a video for "24,900 Miles Per Hour".
Gato Negro received mixed reviews from critics. Eric Bensel of Alternative Press wrote that 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". Entertainment Weekly critic Mike Flatherty dismissed the album as "a humorless clutch of tough-grrrl conventions and abrasive bluster". In her review of Live at Moe (2016), Pitchfork Estelle Tang called Gato Negro "simultaneously less scrappy and less compelling" than the band's previous albums.[4] 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.[5]
All songs written by Vigil/Davis
Adapted from liner notes.[6]
7 Year Bitch
Production