Cassels Release Video For New Single When Completing Handshakes
Friday, 01 June 2018
Written by Jon Stickler
Cassels have released their first new material since their 2017 debut LP, 'Epithet'.
Speaking about When Completing Handshakes and its accompanying video, one half of the art-punk duo, guitarist and vocalist Jim Beck said:
"This song is essentially me taking the piss out of myself set to music. Specifically: ridiculing certain neurotic and anxious personality traits which I’m sure I share with many of you. I think it’s important to try and laugh at yourself. If you take yourself too seriously it’s easy to wallow in self-pity and over-analyse, whereas applying some humour can help to achieve some perspective.
"Videos are annoying and dumb. The only videos I like tend to be the ones with proper budgets and professional film crews, which we don’t have, so we filmed this video in my living room and it cost us £0. I’ve been told I look like an axe murderer at the beginning, which wasn’t intentional."
The band will support the single with a London show next month. They also tour Europe with Big Scary Monster label mates Gender Roles later this month.
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