Cassels Announce Second Album 'The Perfect Ending', Share Video For Title Track

Cassels have announced their second album.

'The Perfect Ending' will arrive on September 6 through Big Scary Monsters and follow up 2017's 'Epithet'. Discussing the record, vocalist and guitarist Jim Beck said:

“The title, 'The Perfect Ending', is my attempt to put a positive spin on the fact climate change is going to kill us all.I thought it would be interesting to try and write about environmental issues in a way that wasn't didactic or preachy, and didn't consist of me singing lines like 'Mother Earth is dying, ooh yeah, we need to save the rainforests, man' while mournfully strumming a lute.

“All of the tracks on the second half of the record are an attempt to approach the subject from various oblique and surreal angles. The title track, for example, is about all the plants deciding enough is enough and conspiring to wipe out humanity before we take them with us. For me, humanity being wiped off the face of the Earth is a happy ending (though we decided we couldn't call the album 'The Happy Ending' due to the obvious connotations with seedy massage parlours...). If you reflect on our contribution to the planet as whole, we totally deserve to die. We're the only species intelligent enough to realise we're killing ourselves and the world we inhabit, whilst simultaneously being too greedy to do anything about it.” 

Head below to check out the album's artwork, tracklist and the video for its title track. The latter is an alternative rock offering that skilfully plays with time signatures while Beck delivers a spoken word vocal performance.

'The Perfect Ending' tracklist:

1. A Snowflake In Winter
2. All The St. John’s Wart In The World
3. Mink Skin Coat
4. Melting Butter
5. In The Zoo They Feed Him Nuts
6. The Perfect Ending
7. The Leaking Ark
8. The Queue At The Chemists
9. The Woman In The Moon

Cassels will appear at Truck Festival on July 26 and are expected to confirm more UK shows soon.

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