Black Cat Tongue is a ten-track collection of songs that dive deep into the darker corners of desire, heartbreak, memory, and redemption. Written, composed, and produced entirely by MATEYEVIC, the record is as much a personal statement as it is a timeless blues rock experience. Across its thirty minutes, the album unravels themes of temptation, loss, resilience, and self-confrontation, building a world where every lyric feels lived-in and every riff carries the weight of truth.

The record opens with “Hoodoo Dust”, a spellbound invocation that sets the tone with imagery of southern folklore, ritual, and magnetic obsession. From there, “Wrong Things” and the title track “Black Cat Tongue” push into dangerous lust and raw physicality — songs that swagger with seduction and unapologetic desire. This opening triad establishes the album’s first movement: music steeped in temptation, dripping with smoke, sweat, and shadow.

The middle section shifts into heartbreak and reflection. “Lipstick on My Glass” captures the intimacy of memory etched in something as small as a lipstick stain, turning a neon-lit bar into a monument to loss. “Where You Still Live” takes the ghost of love and builds it into a haunting presence that lingers in silence, while “Walk Away Clean” confronts regret with the determination to leave and reclaim freedom. “Just Another Goodbye” strips away drama to expose the repetition of endings that have become painfully familiar — the quiet departures that cut the deepest. These songs form the heart of the record, grounding its fire and mysticism in human vulnerability.

In its final movement, the album turns inward. “Slow Comes Easy” finds strength in patience, portraying a man who no longer races against the world but lives at his own pace, unshaken by chaos. Then comes “Fade Me Out”, the darkest and most unflinching track of the record — an unguarded confession of exhaustion, despair, and emptiness. But the story doesn’t end there. The closing track, “Cut The Cycle”, transforms that darkness into resolution. With honesty as sharp as the riffs that carry it, the song declares an end to self-destruction and the beginning of freedom: “So I’m gonna cut the cycle, I’m gonna set me free.”

As a whole, Black Cat Tongue functions like a narrative arc. It begins with temptation, moves through loss, and ends with confrontation and release. Its message is both universal and deeply personal: we are all haunted by cycles of desire, regret, and despair, but there is always a choice to break free. The record doesn’t romanticize pain — it exposes it, wrestles with it, and ultimately refuses to let it define the ending.

What makes this album distinctive is not only its lyrical honesty but also its independence. Every element — from songwriting to production — was shaped by the artist alone, giving the record an authenticity that resonates beyond the studio walls.

For listeners, Black Cat Tongue offers more than songs. It offers a journey through shadow and light, through the ghosts of memory and the raw pulse of survival. It is a record that invites you to dance, to grieve, to confront yourself, and to walk away cleansed. As the closing notes fade, what remains is not despair but resilience — the proof that cycles can indeed be broken, and that music can carry us through the darkest nights toward the promise of morning.