Cassette - Who Do You Trust? CD [INSCRIBED BY BAND INSIDE BOOKLET]

Centrefold of booklet inscribed by band

What was it that you slipped inside my drink?/ Maybe poison? Jon Savage demands on the enigmatic fist-pumper Who Do You Trust.

No need to be so paranoid, man. His groups second album a quietly confident collection of steroid-enhanced stadium rockers, sleek pop anthems, and genuinely heartfelt ballads is what few others achieve: intelligent, adventurous and damn near impossible to get out of your head.

Sure Vusi Mahlasela shows up but not for the now-expected gentle backing vocals. With no place for that familiar angelic voice over the brassy blasts of Break My Heart, Cassette have reawakened the young firebrand within. And as he rages through lines like You just keep paying the ransom to buy you peace of mind its impossible not to recall the fiery When Love Comes To Town, U2s equally brave collaboration with BB King.

That bravery continues on the purposely loose-limbed Drunk N Honest. A rough n ready barroom singalong pissed backing singers already provided its stripped back approach gives the often-thought, rarely-expressed sentiments a sincerity that slaps you right through the face.

More physical assault a kick in the teeth, to be precise comes courtesy of aggro music industry rant Hungry Wolves (all threatening vocals, a fearsome guitar riff and Jane Breetzkes organ stabs), while the stirring call to arms Save This City and elegiac rock epic Argentinian Skies (think Manic Street Preachers circa 1999) keep the adrenaline pumping.

The perfectly measured Useless Confusion and Fighter Planes temper the musical onslaught and highlight some of the more pensive lyrics (Betrayed my eyes again/ Felt like something left by the moon/ But I sold out he almost whispers on the former) but its the pensive The Backup Plan that really gets under your skin. A pensive duet delicately produced by Darryl Torr and impeccably mixed by Killers collaborator Mark Needham so that Savage and Breetzkes voices entwine in an intricate dance, even its quiet tenderness is more powerful than anything on the bands debut.

Now thats certainly no cause for paranoia.

6009509332722

CDEMCJ (WIS) 6516

EMI, 2009

Country: SOUTH AFRICA

Good condition

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