Cast - Beetroot

Cast : Beetroot

John Power's funkadelic reinvention

If previous form was anything to go by, Cast could have promised an album of Hungarian death metal and it still should have sounded like the Charity Shop La's. Miraculously, though, the chirpy Mersey mystics appear to have happened on the meaning of the phrase 'diminishing returns'. The salvage operation? It involves flutes, horns, the sound of the funky drummer, and what...

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• Jul 30, 2001

Cast - 'Troubled Times'

Cast are just doing what they are good at: guitar-pop

• Mar 2, 2012

Cast : Desert Drought

This sounds even more dated than Cast's nutrient-free jangles of old.

• Jul 11, 2001

Cast announce April 2012 UK tour – ticket details

Band will hit the road in support of 'Troubled Times', their first new album for a decade

• Dec 6, 2011

Cast announce release date for first album in 10 years

'Troubled Times' is their first LP since 2001's 'Beetroot'

• Nov 29, 2011