Following the incredible success of annual Record Store Day, Cassette Store Day is set to be celebrated this year on Saturday 7th September, with record stores selling cassette tapes to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the German invention.
The Pastels have compiled a unique C60 cassette of some of their favourite Pastels music, and it’s called ‘Summer Rain’ after the track of the same name taken from current album ‘Slow Summits’.
Speaking of the release the band said “When we started our group all those years ago, cassettes, like fanzines, were an immediate, easier way into things for us, and many others. It was the perfect, accessible, outsider medium. We of course got lucky and Whaam!, Rough Trade and slightly later, Creation liked our music and wanted to release Pastels records. But how did they first hear us? On cassette of course. For Cassette Store Day we’ve tried to be faithful to the art form by compiling a speedy mix / comp in the way that you would for someone you wanted to turn onto a group that you like. It’s a Pastels comp, so Summer Rain is a C60 (with download card) of some of our favourite music we’ve made for Domino, starting around 1995 with Mobile Safari and ending with songs from the Slow Summits sessions. The artwork is by Annabel Wright.”
The Pastels are set to play Scala in London on November 8th