6 October 2026 – A Cat Called Monty Returns After Twenty Years to Welcome Us to a Life Nobody Controls

Australian project A Cat Called Monty receives another useful discovery boost today for "Welcome To Life," a warm, dreamy indie-rock song with considerably sharper ideas underneath its inviting surface. Led by songwriter David Jennings, the project returned after roughly twenty years without releasing music, which means 'comeback single' hardly covers the amount of dust potentially accumulated around the cables.

"Welcome To Life" examines humanity's enthusiasm for pretending everything can be controlled, organised and emotionally medicated into obedience. Its lyrics invent fictional products and concepts including Divertrom, Selectivecom, Bigfom and Psychodrom, imaginary shortcuts for dodging responsibility, manufacturing reactions and getting through inconvenient reality. The repeated title consequently becomes increasingly sarcastic: welcome to life, where the operating system remains unsupported and nobody has located the settings menu.

Sonically, the song is much warmer than its satire, wrapping the ideas in dreamy dream-pop textures instead of delivering them as a lecture. That contrast gives Jennings' return personality rather than simply nostalgia value. Twenty years away from releasing music apparently provides plenty of time to notice that modern life has become even more obsessed with control. Excellent timing, then.