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.

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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!