Kitty Craft

Under the name Kitty Craft, Pamela Valfer has been creating lo-fi electronic pop since the mid-1990s as part of Minneapolis’s independent scene in the United States, blending indie-pop melodies with programmed rhythms, simple keyboards and bedroom-pop textures. After a self-titled cassette released in 1994 on the Australian label Toytown and the EP It’s Stupid in 1995, Kitty Craft moved from an initially very spare format toward a more structured sound with the EP I Got Rulez in 1997, followed by Beats and Breaks from the Flower Patch in 1998 on Kindercore Records and Catskills in 2000 on March Records. Both albums prompted tours in Japan and local CD editions. In the early 2000s Kitty Craft recorded a third album that remained unreleased at the time, and Pamela Valfer put the project on hold to focus on her work as a visual artist and on teaching. The name Kitty Craft reappeared in 2019 with reissues of Beats and Breaks from the Flower Patch and Catskills, followed by Lost Tapes, released the same year from recordings made in 2003. In 2022 the anthology Mew (1994–2004) brings together different periods of this trajectory, between handcrafted pop, gentle electronica and a melodic sensibility rooted in American indie.