Cut for Winter

As the killer Welling­ton wind stalks the Welling­ton­ista tow­ers by day we’ve been seek­ing solace in beau­ti­ful music, as you do. And since a copy of Cas­set­te’s brand new EP Can­cer land­ed in my cold lit­tle hands I’ve been able to lis­ten to very lit­tle else — oth­er than the howl­ing wind, natch. As their press release says, “If you like eagles, there’s 3 on the cov­er”. And if you like Cas­sette, you can catch them at Bode­ga next week to launch those very same eagles.

Details after the leap

Can­cer start­ed life as a stop-gap sin­gle (the 2nd album is near­ly done) but turned instead into an enthu­si­as­tic record­ing of five killer songs, most of which I recog­nise from the smat­ter­ing of live shows since they’ve relo­cat­ed back to Welling­ton from Mel­bourne (pick­ing up an ex-mem­ber and a new bass play­er along the way), and all of which have been thought­ful­ly record­ed and wran­gled into a lit­tle rip­per of a disc. It has to be said that singer/guitarist/songwriter Tom Wat­son, with his man­gled metaphors and hand­some voice, is our answer to Neil Young. In a good way.
Any­way! The band have been hon­ing (and grow­ing) their chops tour­ing with, var­i­ous­ly, Bach­e­lorette, Aussie charmer Ned Col­lette and the Phoenix Foun­da­tion; as well as mak­ing up parts of the Phoenix F’s Sam Scot­t’s oth­er band the Bun­nies on Ponies. And final­ly they’re cel­e­brat­ing the EP’s release next Fri­day July 11th at Bar Bode­ga and you can pick your­self up a tick­et at Slow­boat records on Cuba St. Their live show defines enig­mat­ic and I thor­ough­ly rec­om­mend them. See you there!