Interview - John Power, Cast

Debut albums are both a curse and a blessing for musicians.

The adage about having all your life to write your debut is true (to a certain extent), but it runs deeper than that. To capture the energy, enthusiasm and passion that can only come from the first attempt is a thankless, if not impossible task.

Think then how it feels to be John Power. With not one, but two iconic debut albums (The La’s and All Change) under his belt before his 29th birthday, the Cast frontman knows a thing or two about what it takes to make a first impression. So, when he says his band’s new album captures that elusive magic, you’d better pay attention.

“I wanted to capture the energy of a debut, not in a novel way but in the sense that I was thinking about why they were so exciting,” says the Liverpudlian of new album Love Is The Call. “If I was going write a debut record for the band, how would it sound? It would be this record.”

“It’s got that energy but it’s also got an understanding and a wistfulness about living a life. It’s not like, ‘Hey, we’re here! We’ve got it all ahead of us’. I had to dig deeper for the fundamental ideas, and so – as I was thinking like that – I found this little niche of where I was between the two seminal records. There was a space between those two moments in my life where I hadn’t expressed the merging of them whilst not parodying either of them.”

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