Cast - Yeah Yeah Yeah
Galvanised by last year’s Oasis support shows in much the same way Richard Ashcroft was before them, Cast return with their eighth album, their fourth in the second act in their career.
That said, the Liverpudlians hardly needed re-energising after a perfect hat-trick of the warm reception to 2024’s Love Is The Call, the Oasis shows, and an autumn tour commemorating 30 years of their debut, yet their new offering still crackles with fresh momentum, flecked with a new swagger. Recorded in Spain with the legendary Youth, it captures a band both riding positive momentum and drawing confidently on experience.
Perhaps it was the knowledge that some of these songs would be tested in stadiums, but the opening stretch is unapologetically big, bold, and built for scale. Opener ‘Poison Vine’, debuted live at Heaton Park last summer alongside the legendary P.P. Arnold, is full of intent, its glam-rock sheen elevated by her presence, adding gravitas and class as always. The anthemic ‘Don’t Look Away’ follows, with John Power reaching impressively high notes as Liam ‘Skin’ Tyson’s sky-kissing guitar lines soar, capped by an outro with self-referential ‘Yeah yeah yeah’s.