In these times of streaming platforms and instant downloads, audience reach can be somewhat easily tracked and measured. There’s an immediacy to ‘success’. What, then, if you had to wait 30-odd years for people to catch on? It’s the unlikely (but then again, is anything in 2020?!) premise behind the re-discovery of Cassie, a late 70’s power-pop quartet hailing from the Isle Of Wight. Enjoying modest local success, the band released the single ‘Change My Image’ in 1982 through AKA Records. Everything else recorded during those sessions never found its way to the public, and Cassie disbanded in 1985 after coming close to signing a major label deal. Fast forward 30ish years, and Jeremy Thompson of New York’s Reminder Records hears something he l...
