Human Worth are proud to present the astounding new album ‘Tracked In Mud’ from London duo Cassels, releasing 7th March 2025 with a portion of proceeds donated to charity.
‘Tracked In Mud’ comes three years after the duo’s critically acclaimed album ‘A Gut Feeling’. Close to burnout from heavy touring, the brothers Beck returned to their Harringay warehouse practice space. Jim, tired of his last record’s overtures at pop culture, got very into Converge. New songs came: heavy, and weird.
Gone are the sharp-tongued character sketches, replaced with a heady cocktail of philosophy and body horror. Ditched, too, are the flirtations with mid-aughts indie rock and electro. On ‘Tracked in Mud’, we’re treated to something bigger. Wilder. More...elemental. This is a record about humanity’s disconnection from nature, after all.
When the time was right, the Becks brought in Alex Petersen – aka Nyquist Noise, aka avant-rock demiurge Vincent Vocoder Voice – to produce the new record, for the first time since their debut EP. After two weeks of isolation, the three emerged with ‘Tracked In Mud’: a soundtrack to life in the final days of an arrogant, technocratic hellscape.
Ushered in by the honking of geese, punctuated by... more
'Brutally poignant, entirely unembellished and painfully honest… Cassels deliver exceptional DIY punk with something real about them’ – Kerrang
'A cathartic, adrenal shock to the system’ – NME
'Cassels have the most distinctive and disturbing band identity to emerge from the UK in years and deserve to be cherished' – Tom Robinson, 6 Music / BBC Introducing
'Impressive, punk-tinged magic.’ – DIY
'Devastatingly direct, utterly unforgiving… brutally confrontational and powerful beyond words.’ – Upset
'One of the more exciting sounds to come out of the U.K. in quite some time' – Paste