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With heads bobbing and toes tapping, The Cassettes bring an exuberant vitality sadly lacking in much of the current music scene. This vitality recalls select themes found in the music of the Beatles, Todd Rundgren, and Badfinger and melds them into something fresh and striking. Critics and the casual listener alike will be undoubtedly and unabashedly captivated by The Cassettes' zeal and fervor.Artist biography: The Cassettes, sunshine filled songs, violet strewn hills of amplifiers, kaleidoscopic swirling guitars, running rivulets of fuzz-drenched sound. Post-Punk Psychedelia? Neo-Garage rock for basement show kids? Whatever it is it sure is head-bopping, spastic flailing fun. A marriage of 70‚s power-pop to the angular indie D.C. sound, The Cassettes are not so much a step back as they are a sideward glance through a distorted mirror of influences. Hailing from the nation‚s capital, this quartet is assembled from such notable underground acts as Frodus, Dead Meadow, & Weird War.
Friends playing music for the joy of playing, it comes across in their sound, their live show and hell even in their song titles (ex. How can it be so bad?, the good times). This joyful romp through blaring rock was originally the outgrowth of frontman, Shelby Cinca‚s four track recordings. Odd nuggets of pop that didn‚t fit the teeth- gritting angst of his previous project, Frodus. Teaming with High School buddy and Dead Meadow Bassist Steven Kille back in 1999, the duo spent many reels of rehearsal tape writing songs that reminded them of the vinyl LP‚s on their parent‚s turntables in their youth. Recruiting Steve‚s Girlfriend Jennifer to fatten their treble on second guitar and Stephen McCarty on Drums to outfit recording their self-titled debut. Since then The Cassettes went from rainy day project to a open sky jamboree, as the mileage on the Odometer and the mileage on their show gear grows and grows by their odd treks from club to club.
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21st Century power-pop,
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I picked this up a few days ago and am just now getting into it.Favorites so far are "Girl With X-Ray Eyes" and "Improbable Solution". Great stuff for riding around on a warm spring day.
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The Cassettes is The Cassettes' first studio release.
Shelby Cinca, Saadat Awan, Stephen J. Perron Guidry, and Arthur Harrisonhave been a member of The Cassettes.
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