Cassette Drift Aaron Valentine Mike Smith Salt Lake City Aaron Valentine and Mike Smith, the duo that are Cassette Drift, are explorers and creators, wanderers, profilers and catalogers of the human experience. They are both intensely connected to music and have an insatiable appetite for it. It’s an eating, breathing, sleeping thing. Both are sons of musicians and had music imprinted on them from the time they were young children. Taking cues from the Cocteau Twins, Drab Majesty and Slowdive in particular, with their moody, world-wandering sounds, you’ll hear it in the music they make...that echoey guitar, hollowed, haunted vocals, vibrating, bright and high, repeating layers of synths to add texture and feeling. Everything meant to take you away to a particular place, time or feeling to hear whatever it is your heart and your mind have to say to each other. On their debut album, International Fateline (2019) it starts and carries through to the end – the echoed strains, pulsing through lost clouds and dreamy landscapes of smooth synths and shimmery guitars, with drifting, haunted harmonies. Tendrils of an homage to The Cure reach out, the occasional strains of a voice that reflects the thoughtful melancholic pleas of Ian Curtis, and the ethereal dancing space lights of the ever-angelic call back of the Cocteau Twins. We each walk a path, this one, this path created and walked by Aaron Valentine and Mike Smith called Cassette Drift is indeed, richly, textured and beautiful. Cassette Drift’s tracks Common Moment by Cassette Drift published on 2022-09-06T03:01:33Z Mirrored Heart by Cassette Drift published on 2022-09-06T03:01:38Z Integral by Cassette Drift published on 2021-12-12T16:49:01Z 01 - Design by Cassette Drift published on 2020-12-11T16:53:57Z 02 - Canvas by Cassette Drift published on 2020-12-11T16:53:17Z 03 - Effortless by Cassette Drift published on 2020-12-11T16:51:59Z 04 - Evilution by Cassette Drift published on 2020-12-11T16:51:18Z 05 - Production by Cassette Drift published on 2020-12-11T16:50:00Z