Music review: 
The Official Fiction, Something For Kate (Murmur) ****
By Shaun Carney
Green Guide, August 21 2003

As the second half of Something For Kate's fourth album, The Official Fiction, kicks in, a stunning succession of songs unfolds. First, there is the dramatic single Deja Vu, with its strings courtesy of The Section, then perhaps the best song the Melbourne trio has produced so far, Reverse Soundtrack, a ballad featuring guest vocals from Lisa Germano, and lastly Coldwater Canyon, a chunk of anthemic, uptempo pop that emphasises this band's rock chops. In the CD age, with the standard album running more than 50 minutes, tracks seven to nine are generally when energies and inspiration flag. Not on this unusually good album. The taut - sometimes overwrought - rhythms and chord structures of the band's past work make way here for a more relaxed sound with looser guitars and more intimate vocals from Paul Dempsey, and subtler, more agile tempos from the rhythm section of Stephanie Ashworth and Clint Hyndman. Acoustic, organic, musically rich - The Official Fiction documents a strong band going through an extraordinary growth spurt. -- Shaun Carney