In a recent interview with Manuel Paredes and Carlos Cortez of Spain's Metal Remains, KITTIE lead singer/guitarist Morgan Lander detailed the Canadian group's decision to re-record four key tracks from their Gold-selling debut album, SPIT, The EP, aptly titled Spit XXV, celebrates the album's 25th anniversary. The band reteamed with Spit producer Garth Richardson to re-record "Brackish", "Charlotte", "Do You Think I'm A Whore", and "Spit".
Lander explained, "For a really long time, and I'm talking probably 20 years, we have internally discussed the idea of re-recording some of those songs in various stages of our career for many different reasons. Some of them, the Taylor Swift reason—we don't own those masters, and so it only makes sense. But I think ultimately being able to celebrate in this way and mark 25 years of KITTIE and of Spit, of being a band out in public, it's a really cool way to celebrate."
On choosing which songs to update, she continued, "I think it was pretty easy to choose the songs. I know that we had discussed redoing the entire album, which I think—it's tough. Some of those songs, I think, may not have translated as well with a more modern twist, and so for us we chose songs that we still play live. And so, they've had the chance to evolve over time—songs like 'Brackish', like 'Charlotte', like 'Spit', 'Do You Think I'm A Whore?', those songs we have played live all throughout our career since they've been released. And when you take a song out on the road and you've played it thousands of times, it starts to change and become a little different." She added, "...they're still the same songs, but there's a lot of different things kind of going on. The musicianship you can clearly tell is different as well. So, we wanted to choose the songs that we were able to update to represent who we are as a band now and still sort of apply that same sound, those same sonics that we accomplished with (KITTIE's 2024 album) Fire."
In addition to re-teaming with Richardson, the EP was mixed by Josh Wilbur who mixed Fire. "We were honored to work with Garth again where it all began after more than two decades and doing so was a cool way to pay homage to the past while updating these songs with a modern sound, bringing them into the future."
Spit XXV drops September 19 via Sumerian Records. The new version of the title track, "Spit XXV" is available on all streaming platforms.
Catch the full interview with Metal Remains below:
