Album Review: This World Fucking Sucks by Cassyette

Fresh from supporting Bring Me the Horizon on their latest arena tour, Brighton-based Cassyette is set to unleash her debut album, This World Fucking Sucks. Tackling a number of hard-hitting subjects, such as the loss of her father and substance and alcohol abuse, Cassyette channels all of her past trauma into a 15-track musical kaleidoscope of pure and raw emotion. Winning the 2022 Heavy Music Award for Best UK Breakthrough Band hasn't stopped Cassyette experimenting with different sounds on the record.

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Titling your album 'This World Fucking Sucks' is a bold move, but knowing a little more about Cassyette's backstory, you begin to understand its moniker more clearly. Releasing her debut after a slew of deeply personal struggles (the singer lost her father unexpectedly in 2020, and has grappled with addiction issues in the wake), the pain she's felt over the past few years is very tangibly imbued within the record. It's perhaps best distilled in the scorched 'When She Told Me' - a track which veers seamlessly from crunchy nu metal riffs to haunting vocals - with its devastating chorus refrain of "I can't cry anymore", as she sings of her reaction after being told of her father's passing.

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