Inspired by great guitar bands of the past, but with an eye firmly on the future, The High Cascades‘ brand of Americana evokes a seldom captured musical aesthetic. While the band’s sound is often visceral and immediate, their nuanced song driven melodies bear repeating and owe as much to a tradition of Great British songwriting as they do to the soulful sound of West Coast America. If their hard edged guitar sound and vocal harmonies evoke the ghosts of psychedelia, or the country/blues of The Rolling Stones and The Faces, they are tempered by the kind of acerbic lyrics of longing and heartbreak which could only have flowed from the pen of Lloyd Cole or Ray Davies.