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We had the pleasure of interviewing Caskets over Zoom video!

There\u2019s an art to looking back. For Caskets, it could have been easy to plough forwards regardless, riding the wave of success from their breakthrough debut \u2018Lost Souls\u2019 that opened tours up across the United States and mainland Europe, and secured appearances at landmark festivals Download and Slam Dunk. But having swapped the bedrooms that fostered album number one for countless hours on the road, reflecting on that journey and the decisions that led them down certain paths quickly became unavoidable. Now tackling the realities of a busy band schedule, spending the best part of two years in shared tour buses and hotel rooms, those reflections have become collective.

If \u2018Lost Souls\u2019 was primarily driven by vocalist Matt Flood\u2019s personal experiences, sophomore album \u2018Reflections\u2019 delivers a wider picture of Caskets as a whole, borne out of the usual interpersonal differences that all bands face at least once in their career. For some it marks the end, but for others it fosters a collaborative environment that pushes the music well beyond what has come before.

The result reflects each individual member of Caskets, with Matt joined by guitarists Benji Wilson and Craig Robinson, bassist Chris Mcintosh, and drummer James Lazenby.

A series of individual lessons, each track on the Dan Weller (Holding Absence, Bury Tomorrow) produced \u2018Reflections\u2019 looks back at a specific moment in one of the band member\u2019s lives; a thought, feeling or events, and how that moment shaped the present. It\u2019s a step away from the singular retellings of \u2018Lost Soul\u2019, and a concept that emerged as Matt reassessed his position in and commitment to the band.

The subsequent reflections take very different shapes. The thunderous \u2018Guiding Light\u2019 tells of the struggle in finding personal strength in the face of a broken relationship; the haunting \u2018Silhouettes\u2019 lands on the immeasurable power of self-worth and how we should never change ourselves for others, while album closer \u2018Better Way Out\u2019 spawns from the process of saving a loved one from suicide. \u201cYou can be who you want to be,\u201d the song rings out with a soaring orchestral catharsis that surpasses all of Casket\u2019s contemporaries. The breadth and density of the subject matter is pulled together by the record\u2019s concept, ultimately forming the beating heart of the record.

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