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Fresh from having played an amazing Valentine’s Day party for Virgin Radio, Cast were back at the top of the tower to perform some songs on the Stool of Rock and to talk about their new album, which is out today (16th February).
Love Is The Call is the Liverpool band’s seventh studio album. Talking to Jayne Middlemiss - who is presenting the Chris Evans Breakfast Show with cinch this week - frontman John Power said: “We needed to come back with something that was just a seminal record.”
Talking about “energy” and “effervescence”, John said that it was important that the band were “true to the kind of the vision and the identity of the album.”
He continued: “I think we’ve done the best performances as a band, individually and collectively. It's just got an energy and an identity. And I'm very, very happy about it. Not in the sense of a needy happiness, I just kind of feel liberated because when you make the best record that you can, at this present moment in time, there's often more you can get hung up on. I mean, what's the use of you getting hung up when I know this is the best record that we've made at this present moment.
“And also, it's the record that Cast needed to make. This is the record that has been fiddling around my head for a long time, and that this is the record that the band needs to make, and they've made it. And I think it says a lot to people who are going to hear it. I think they're going to love it.”
Speaking more about the new album, the guitarist and singer said: “It's full of life. It’s full of psychedelic pop, punky rhythms, great guitar playing. I'm just waiting now for people to hear it and give it life themselves. Because we're the artists, we've done our bit, we can talk to you about, we can explain what things are about. But ultimately, it comes down to the listener. The listener gives it life. So it's down to them now to take it where they need to go.
“A lot of people are talking about it being the best thing we've done. I'm not gonna say this. but I'm certainly going to let other people say that!”
Next month the band are taking the record on the road on a headline UK tour. Further discussing the album, John told Jayne: “All the great things I wanted to do are there. I think it's a nod to the past, because rock and roll is not just from the 90s. It's a generational thing. It transcends all the decades. So I think we've captured that energy, but it's a very present album. The songs are very relevant today, and music matters to people and their lives, and fads come and fads go, but a song that you love stays with you forever. I think there’s songs on this record that people are going to interpret themselves and they're going to carry away with them. And it'll be part of their lives. And that is a very special thing as an artist, and as a band, to be able to do that.”
John - who was joined by Liam ‘skin’ Tyson on guitar and Keith O’Neill on drums - explained: “I’m flying on enthusiasm about it, because I've got no regrets about the record. Where normally, there's always one or two things I could have done differently, I could have done this or the band could have done this, we could have played a better solo, we could have arranged it better, I feel it's complete, it's framed, and it's got the vision.
“I've written some great records, the band have performed some great records in our day, but this feels special.
“I don't want to keep going on about it because I'll just sound like another artist saying, ‘We've done something great’, I'll let other people do it. But it feels that we're in that vein, we found that beautiful place and we're expressing it on a record. It doesn't get better than that.”
Read about Cast's upcoming tour in support of Liam Gallagher on his Definitely Maybe 30th anniversary arena shows, and watch the band's full interview.
Love Is The Call is out today. Cast’s UK headline tour begins Friday 1st March. Tickets are available via castband.co.uk.
For more great interviews listen to The Chris Evans Breakfast Show with cinch weekdays from 6:30am on Virgin Radio, or catch up on-demand here.
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