Excerpts of what the press have had to say about Cassavettes over the years. View our Sonicbids EPK.

MySecretBoston.com: “Genre Benders: A little bit country. And rock ‘n’ roll and punk and …”
“On the surface it feels like the Cassavettes would sit nicely next to your Wallflowers collection. You may even feel the need to tie a sweater around your hips and rip your jeans at the knees. But the Cassavettes show much more range than that, calling on bits and pieces of country, punk, and, of course, ’90s alternative. It’s like they got down and dirty cleaning out rock ’n’ roll’s closet, stole what they liked, then glued it into place with some pop guitar. At times you can hear the band stepping out of Elvis Costello’s shadow, venturing into the stormy waters that the Kings of Leon rode straight to the bank. In other spots the Cassavettes hit more like a rocked-up younger brother to the Jayhawks. Everywhere you get a sense of something friendly and familiar, but never too familiar.”

The Boston Globe: “Sound Check” Album Review
“There’s charm to spare on the first full-length from urban cowboys Cassavettes. The Boston band…hangs fragile melodies, gloomy strings, and casually chiming guitar figures over a series of lived-in acoustic shuffles, swampy open-road stompers, and broken-down breakdowns.”

Boston Metro
“By taking the Beatles’ ‘Revolver’-stomp to the saloon and getting it high on jazz in the backroom, four Texas ex-pats known as Cassavettes mosey away from the same old tear-in-my-beer twang and provide an alternative to alternative-country (Alt-alt-country?).”

The Boston Herald: “Cassavettes throws Texas into indie mix”
“In a city thats overrun with Bauhaus and Interpol soundalikes, this alternative, folk-rock band stands out like an oil rig in open land. … The sound is far beyond Donny and Marie, but they are a little bit country and a little bit rock n roll.”