Forget Cassettes was reviewed in the latest issue of NME!

Fresh off their debut UK release of Salt on Tangled Up and their month long tour with Trail of Dead, it is always nice to come home to a review like this...

Forget Cassettes might hail from Nashville, home of country, but this lot aren't your typical yee-hawing Ole Opry revivalists. Beth Cameron, smoldering heroine at the band's centre, channels the sort of whisper-to-shriek Polly Harvey vocal histrionics and napalm-spraying guitar to make a thousand indie boys tremble with a strange mix of adolescent lust and abject terror. "I won't be anyone's number two", she purrs on Quiero, Quieres – a bitter break up song that's already scanning the horizon for the next lover. Don't mistake Cameron as a bunny boiler, though: Salt gets way weirder than that on the likes of Venison which opens with a firestorm of Fugazi guitars, but cools into a torch song that holds conversations with roadkill. 7 out of 10!

» posted April 20th, 2007 - ∞