Forget Cassettes - Salt

Formed in Nashville, Tennessee, Forget Cassettes is Beth Cameron and Doni Schroeder. They’re cool--tense, brooding, unsettling at times. They’re not your typical band. They’re not going to give you boring old tunes, of some chord progressions, some choruses, a bridge, that sort of thing. They make atmospheric music with odd tempo changes, discordant at time, quiet sometimes, powerfully loud at others. The tunes can be fast, or slow (sometimes they’ll be both on the same song). Take “Venison,” for example, a six plus minute song that starts with ethereal chimes before cranking into an Evanescence-type beat, before slowing down again with quiet chord progressions and lyrics before speeding up again with whelps and screams. Odd, the song is, but arresting. “Queiro, Quieres” begins with heavy guitar and drum work and ends with the same. In the middle, all sorts of sonic stuff happens. Most songs on the album are long and most aren’t going to be played on your standard radio station simply because they’re so different and uncategorical. They’re not Jessica Simpson, in other words. They’re strong, though, with lots of interesting things to say for those willing to give them a listen. [www.forgetcassettes.com]