Perfect as Cats: A Tribute to the Cure is a charity record released by Los Angeles indie label, Manimal Vinyl

Manimal Vinyl

Manimal Vinyl is a Los Angeles based record label founded in 2006 by fashion stylist, Paul Beahan. They are known for releasing underground and experimental pop music. They were originally known as a folk label that makes annual tribute records for worldwide charities, having eventually switched to...

 on October 28, 2008.(24 March 2008). The Cure удостоились двух альбомов-трибьютов, Segodnya

Segodnya

Sevodnya founded in 1997, is a Russian language Kiev-based tabloid newspaper, second only to Fakty i Kommentarii in circulation, with over 700,000 subscribers. While run from Kiev, it is linked to Donbas political and business groups, supporting former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych for the...

(in Russian)(9 February 2009). Perfect As Cats : A Tribute To The Cure, Les Inrockuptibles

Les Inrockuptibles

Les Inrockuptibles is a French cultural magazine. Started as a monthly magazine in 1986, it became weekly in 1995. The name is a play on "Les Incorruptibles", the French title of the American television series The Untouchables...

(in French) It features covers of The Cure

The Cure

The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several line-up changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member...

 favourites by Dandy Warhols, Bat For Lashes

Bat for Lashes

Natasha Khan , also known by her stage name Bat for Lashes, is an English musician. She sings and plays the piano, bass, guitar, harpsichord and the autoharp....

, Kaki King

Kaki King

Kaki King is an American guitarist and composer. King is known for her percussive and jazz-tinged melodies, energetic live shows, use of multiple tunings on acoustic and lap steel guitar, and her diverse range in different genres.In February 2006, Rolling Stone released a list of "The New Guitar...

, Devastations, ex-Godflesh

Godflesh

Godflesh are an English industrial metal band from Birmingham, England. Originally known as Fall of Because, they formed in 1988 by Justin K. Broadrick and G.C. Green and disbanded in 2002. Godflesh's innovative music is widely regarded as a foundational influence on industrial metal and post-metal...

 frontman, Justin K. Broadrick's Jesu

Jesu (band)

Jesu is a post-metal band formed in 2003 by Justin Broadrick following the breakup of Godflesh. Jesu was the name of the last song on the final Godflesh release, Hymns, and Broadrick decided to adopt it as the name of this project....

, Rio en Medio

Rio en Medio

Rio en Medio is the pseudonym of singer and baritone ukulelist Danielle Stech-Homsy.-Background:Born in the high desert of New Mexico, Danielle later made Brooklyn her home and there began to record and perform her own compositions...

, Sarabeth Tucek

Sarabeth Tucek

Sarabeth Tucek is an American singer and songwriter. Her self-titled first album was released in 2007, with a second album Get Well Soon in 2011.-Life and career:...

, Mariee Sioux

Mariee Sioux

Mariee Sioux is an American folk singer-songwriter. Her father Gary Sobonya is a mandolin player of Polish and Hungarian descent, and her mother Felicia is of Spanish, Paiute, and Indigenous Mexican descent.-Biography:...

, Blackblack

Blackblack

BlackBlack is a rock band from Los Angeles, California, consisting of Diva Dompe , Lola Dompe , and Clark Schädelkopf .-Background:...

, Gangi

Gangi

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, Rainbow Arabia

Rainbow Arabia

Rainbow Arabia is an electronic duo based in Los Angeles, California consisting of Future Pigeon and Whisky Biscuit keyboardist Danny Preston and wife Tiffany Preston....

 and over 20 more artists and bands. The proceeds of the album went to the Invisible Children

Invisible Children

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 charity which works with the war torn youth in the African country of Sudan

Sudan

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.

Pitchfork

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rated the album a 3.9.Cohen, Ian (12 March 2009). Various Artists Just Like Heaven: A Tribute to the Cure / Perfect As Cats: A Tribute to the Cure, Pitchfork Media

Pitchfork Media

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Track listing

CD1

1. Xu Xu Fang - "Fascination Street" (5:37)
2. Bat for Lashes
   Bat for Lashes
   Natasha Khan , also known by her stage name Bat for Lashes, is an English musician. She sings and plays the piano, bass, guitar, harpsichord and the autoharp....
   
    - "A Forest" (3:23)
3. Hecuba
   Hecuba
   Hecuba was a queen in Greek mythology, the wife of King Priam of Troy during the Trojan War, with whom she had 19 children. These children included several major characters of Homer's Iliad such as the warriors Hector and Paris, and the prophetess Cassandra...
   
    - "Killing an Arab" (2:57)
4. Indian Jewelry - "The Walk 1" (5:47)
5. Geneva Jacuzzi - "The Walk 2" (3:40)
6. Astrid Quay - "The Caterpillar" (3:52)
7. Rainbow Arabia - "Six Different Ways" (2:45)
8. We Are the World - "Why Can't I Be You?" (3:30)
9. Blackblack
   Blackblack
   BlackBlack is a rock band from Los Angeles, California, consisting of Diva Dompe , Lola Dompe , and Clark Schädelkopf .-Background:...
   
    - "In Between Days" (2:55)
10. Aquaserge with Laure Briard - "10:15 Saturday Night" (5:19)
11. Gangi - "Fire in Cairo" (4:09)
12. Rio en Medio
    Rio en Medio
    Rio en Medio is the pseudonym of singer and baritone ukulelist Danielle Stech-Homsy.-Background:Born in the high desert of New Mexico, Danielle later made Brooklyn her home and there began to record and perform her own compositions...
    
     - "Pictures of You" (4:35)
13. Joker's Daughter - "Kyoto Song" (3:57)
14. Caroline Weeks - "The Drowning Man" (3:54)
15. Ex-Reverie - "The Hanging Garden" (4:53)
16. Voyager One - "M" (3:33)
17. Devastations - "All Cats Are Grey" (6:39)

CD2

1. The Dandy Warhols
   The Dandy Warhols
   The Dandy Warhols are an American alternative rock band formed in Portland, Oregon in 1994. The band was founded by singer-guitarist Courtney Taylor-Taylor and guitarist Peter Holmström, with keyboardist Zia McCabe and drummer Eric Hedford later joining. Hedford left in 1998 and was replaced by...
   
    - "Primary" (4:23)
2. Veil Veil Vanish - "The Upstairs Room" (3:30)
3. Wolfkin - "Charlotte Sometimes" (4:25)
4. Army Navy - "Jumping Someone Else's Train" (5:31)
5. The Muslims - "Grinding Halt" (2:49)
6. Lemon Sun - "The Exploding Boy" (3:26)
7. Kaki King
   Kaki King
   Kaki King is an American guitarist and composer. King is known for her percussive and jazz-tinged melodies, energetic live shows, use of multiple tunings on acoustic and lap steel guitar, and her diverse range in different genres.In February 2006, Rolling Stone released a list of "The New Guitar...
   
    - "Close to Me" (3:37)
8. Les Bicyclettes Blanches - "Hot Hot Hot!!!" (3:52)
9. Buddy - "Sugar Girl" (4:07)
10. Katrine Ottosen - "The Lovecats" (4:42)
11. Mariee Sioux
    Mariee Sioux
    Mariee Sioux is an American folk singer-songwriter. Her father Gary Sobonya is a mandolin player of Polish and Hungarian descent, and her mother Felicia is of Spanish, Paiute, and Indigenous Mexican descent.-Biography:...
    
     - "Lovesong" (3:51)
12. Corridor - "The Kiss" (7:06)
13. Tara Busch - "Let's Go to Bed" (4:16)
14. Jesu
    Jesu (band)
    Jesu is a post-metal band formed in 2003 by Justin Broadrick following the breakup of Godflesh. Jesu was the name of the last song on the final Godflesh release, Hymns, and Broadrick decided to adopt it as the name of this project....
    
    - "The Funeral Party" (6:52)
15. Sarabeth Tucek - "Three Imaginary Boys" (3:42)
16. Lewis and Clarke - "Disintegration" (8:48)

Additionally, several more tracks were available as iTunes exclusives:

1. Ich Bin Aiko - "A Strange Day" (4:11)
2. Silver Summit - "A Night Like This" (4:39)
3. Black Hole Oscillators - "The Baby Screams" (2:42)
4. The Holy Kiss - "One Hundred Years" (7:11)