Album review: Cassyette – This World F*cking Sucks

The words stamped across the front of Cassyette​’s debut album might have a gloomy sentiment, but she has a point. While sadness has leached into her vivacious nu-gen sound from the off – her 2022 mixtape was called Sad Girl, after all – there are points on this record where she delves into the depths of grief following her father’s sudden death in 2021 in a more significant way than ever.  Despite this, however, this is not an album to stick on when you’re curled up on the floor crying. Instead, it’s an album to get you off your knees and roaring loud, whether that’s a roar of pain or joy.  The Essex star’s already demonstrated that she’s adept at crafting a banger that plays in your brain on loop for hours, but she’s somehow improved the ...

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