Cassia are back with their highly anticipated EP ‘Home Soon…’ featuring the effortless grooves of the new track ‘Gamma Rays’. 2023 saw Cassia achieve a BBC Radio 1 ‘Hottest Record’ title, secure a slot at Mexico festival Corona Capital and release a slew of singles that all achieved critical acclaim.
A long way from their humble Macclesfield beginnings and 2017 debut, ‘Home Soon…’ comes in the wake of frontman Rob Ellis’ writing journey across LA, Cape Town, London and Berlin, retaining Cassia’s acclaimed tropical vibes whilst introducing more vulnerability than previously seen from the trio.
New track ‘Gamma Rays’ features a bouncy and bright acoustic guitar line, an equally playful bass groove. The lively feel is balanced with their new reflective lyrical abilities, though the vocals are sung with an audible smile. Infectious and vivid, Spring has seemingly come early with this danceable bop.
The band explain the release, “This latest batch of songs took us on a bit of a journey out of our usual surroundings; each song was written in a different place on the globe some of them with good friends of ours and we felt that gave us a new lease of life creatively. I think you can really hear the energy captured in the room of tracks like circular motion, and in songs like gamma rays I can almost hear the whirring of the planes engine in the background when listening to it. We didn’t have an idea going into this EP of any sort of lyrical theme however as we finished more and more tracks, one started to naturally appear. Summed up the EP is based around life cycles. I feel that l always struggle to cope with chapters drawing to a natural close because it forces me to change what is comfortable, it is just a natural response of mine and so these songs act as an outlet for me, some tracks reminded me of the positive outcomes that come off the back of change, whilst some songs were jotted down during a painful switch of reality.”
‘Home Soon’ is available now, give it a listen!
You can also find the official video for ‘Gamma Rays’ here…
