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October 2nd 2026
Light Purple Vinyl
Put early Built To Spill, "Endless Summer"-era The Ventures, and "Foolish"-era Superchunk into a blender on puree during a Florida hurricane ... that's The Cadets. This retrospective spans the career of a Gainesville, Florida ensemble that has toiled in chill obscurity since the early 1990s.
Featuring a young Chad Matheny (Emperor X), The Cadets formed after a Man or Astroman? show in 1995. They bonded in the noisy ether coming from college radio and vintage underground surf music. Rumbling away in a small garage, they built their frenetic thundering drum style around fast-twitch searing lead rhythms and melodies fertile with nervous energy. Inside those urgent drums and angular chords came their melodic hooks, catchy and strong, laden with unexpected twists. More than a decade later, they began to swap recordings for new songs, pushing into new territory they only saw on the horizon as teenagers.
Their sonic experiments produce songs that possess a rare energy that conjures the early days of rock 'n' roll, sci-fi adventures, and diary entries never intended for the light of day. Lyrics filter larger themes through a tilted and tinted lens of wideeyed fantastic reverie.
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