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The Cassettes @ The Vanguard, 23rd Sep

“Let’s do the the screechingly obvious bit first: The Cassettes sound, note-perfect, like The Strokes. It’s a hard thing to judge a band when they sound exactly like another one – but given that band are twenty-plus years deep by now, that’s a bit like judging The Libertines for sounding like The Clash. It’s bloody hard to write original songs in the key of Casablancas, and I’m always impressed when someone pulls it off, which this outfit do in spades. All the loucheness, the easy swagger, the trebly guitars are present and correct – but there are flashes of themsleves in here, and those are unquestionably the best bits. Come for the familiar, but keep ‘em peeled for the surprising. Hacks copy – genius steals.”

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