OVERVIEW
- >27k monthly listeners on Spotify
- Streaming: The sophomore record Youth {06/2023} garnered >100,000 streams on Spotify in the first month of release with multiple features on Ready to Rock, All New Rock, Release Radar and Discover Weekly
- Touring: 7 show Ontario Tour [06/2023], 22 show North American Tour {11/2023} direct support for Finger Eleven in Western Canada
- Awards: Music video for ‘Lock On’ won ‘Best Music Video’ at Kingston Canadian Film Festival [03/2023]
- Other: 'Youth' was used by SportsNet for the NHL draft [06/2023]
SOPHOMORE RECORD: YOUTH
Released June 2 2023
It opens with the sunny riffing of “Youth,” a crashing, teenage summer night ripper over which Wyatt reckons with how to accept the passing of time: “Youth! One day comes before the other is through/Youth! Is it really something I should hold onto?” Follow-up “R.I.P. Me Down” is an early-Aughts indie-rock spiral through unlearning the masculine coding to suppress things inside: “I’m bursting at the seams, I’m talking in my sleep!” calls Wyatt on the chorus.
Later, “The City” is a sweeping, colossal alt-rock exploration of feeling lost, small, and insignificant, a cynical love letter to Toronto. “It’s honest, and honesty has unattractive elements to it,” says Wyatt. “We’re not afraid to shy away from that.”
The icey punk rock frenzy of “Lock On” gives way to “Crawling,” a warm, classic-rock love-song stomp. After remembering the beauty of a past relationship, Wyatt declares over and again on the chorus, “I come crawling back to you, so you don’t have to.” Baker describes the song, with a genuine grin, as “nice guy rock.”
The record closes on the tender finger picking and snare drum shuffle of ballad “Younger Days,” complete with gorgeous, ghostly harmonies and wistful organ accompaniment. Wyatt’s voice carries the record to its uncertain end: “Everything is gonna be alright/Everything is gonna be…”
Tracklist
- Youth
- R.I.P. me down
- Quit Your Crying
- The City
- Changing
- Lock On
- Crawling
- Younger Days
NEW RELEASES
BLUE
Released Friday, January 19th 2024
"Blue" serves as an exploration of being the colour blue, awakening to the vibrancy of the world beyond its own hue. The song evolved into a narrative urging for the appreciation of all colors, symbolizing the journey to rediscover brightness amidst the dullness of life's challenges. It's a reminder of the importance of supporting friends and loved ones through difficult times, offering hope that even when the world seems gray, colors can be found again.
COME OVER
Released Friday Nov 10, 2023
Five months after the release of “Youth”, Kasador share their next offering, “Come Over” – a song about a complex and emotionally turbulent relationship riddled with desire, fear, and a longing for genuine connection where both parties are torn between wanting and not wanting the other's presence.
ABOUT KASADOR
Kingston, Ontario band Kasador have never been scared of change. And the three friends at Kasador’s core—Cameron Wyatt (vocals/guitar), Boris Baker (bass), and Stephen Adubofuor (drums)—have been through a lot of it.
They’ve woven years of tumult through their mid- and late-20s into something powerful and real: a tight-knit, sincere, and caring rock and roll band hitting full sprint, with a newly-released full-length record about youth, memory, relationships, and how the relentless passage of time shapes and constantly reshapes all of those things. It’s a bright, punkish, emotional guitar-rock record that ultimately tracks the process of learning to be okay with not being okay.
Kasador, who have shared stages with Arkells, July Talk, Sam Roberts Band, and The Glorious Sons, began a new era in 2016 from the past life of another university-era band. Adubofuor joined in 2018, and in 2019, the band released their debut full-length Brood and Bloom, a dark, pensive collection of alt-rock, pop, and R&B that scored 350,000 plays in the first six months after release. Kasador celebrated it with a sold-out, 800-cap hometown show that December.
But when the band’s former co-lead singer stepped down in 2020 just before the pandemic began, the trio was again hurled into uncertainty. The usual questions cropped up: are we done? Will we be good enough? Rather than scramble to hold onto the past, they turned inward to each other. They decided to embrace and move forward into a new era, becoming a different band in the process.
Together, he, Baker, and Adubofuor began the process of growth and building that would eventually produce the music for their second LP, the upcoming Youth. This period encouraged a tightening of the screws: songcraft was dissected and refined, and a new, grittier sound emerged. The result on record is an essential document of a band realizing that things won’t—can’t—last forever, and how to make sense of the gap between youthful dreams and very adult realities.
“The last little while, you can really get sucked into chasing a mirage, or some unattainable thing, just looking back on a rosier world,” says Wyatt. “But you can’t get any younger, and you gotta confront how you wanna grow up.”
After demoing dozens of songs, the band recorded at Bathouse Studio with The Glorious Sons’ Brett Emmons producing and Nyles Spencer (Half Moon Run, July Talk) engineering. Vic Florencia (Olivia Rodrigo, Jason Mraz, Five For Fighting) mixed the record and Peter Letros (Beyonce, Duran Duran) mastered.
YOUTH ALBUM CREDITS
Produced and co-written by Brett Emmons of The Glorious Sons, the album was recorded at Bathouse Studios and also features songs co-written by Justin Rutledge and Maïa Davies.
- Engineered by Nyles Spencer (Half Moon Run, July Talk)
- Mixed by Vic Florencia (Olivia Rodrigo, Jason Mraz, Five For Fighting)
- Mastered by Peter Letros (Beyonce, Duran Duran)
2024 TIMELINE:
- January 2024: 'Blue' single release
- January 2024: Southern Ontario / Quebec Tour
- March 2024: New single 'Squeeze' set for release
- March 2024: Eastern Canada/US shows
- April 2024: Western Canada shows
CANADIAN RADIO / DSP
- Brood & Bloom [10/2019] - Total Album Streams: > 600,000
- Youth [06/2023] - Total Album Streams: > 300,000
Radio
- Youth - #3 Active Indie downloads & #7 CANCON downloads (DMDS) [06/2023]
- Brood & Bloom [04/2019] - #27 Canadian Alt Radio
- Brood & Bloom [04/2019] - #37 Active Rock Radio
Sirius XM
- ‘Brood & Bloom’ was added to heavy rotation on ‘The Verge’
American Radio
- 'Come Get Yer Money' was added to Idobi Radio
- 'Skeleton Park' added to heavy rotation on 365 Radio Network
ACHIEVEMENTS
- Sold out headlining hometown show in 800 cap room December 2019
- Shared the stage with Canadian greats: Walk Off The Earth, Arkells, July Talk, Wintersleep, Matt Mays, U.S.S, Current Swell, 54-40, The Headstones, The Trews, Sam Roberts Band, The Glorious Sons, Finger Eleven
- Featured on national CBC broadcasts
- Featured on Spotify’s New Music Friday, Apple Music’s New Music Monday playlist multiple times. Also on Ready To Rock, Release Radar and Discover Weekly
- Featured on House Of Strombo’s tribute to The Tragically Hip
- Features on blogs; Exclaim!, Indie88, New Noise (Indie Trendsetters, Fingers On Blast,], A Little Bit Louder [Los Angles]
- Music synchs with Hockey Night In Canada, SportsNet, and Visit Kingston.
- Attained 350K spins of their 2019 record 'Brood & Bloom' in first 6 months
- Attained 110k spins of their 2023 record 'Youth' in first month
- Part of the first public concert at Kingston Penitentiary as fundraiser for the United Way (Sept 2019)
- Created a beer with a Kingston brewery to promote the album Brood & Bloom (Feb 2020)
- Music video for ‘Lock On’ won ‘Best Music Video’ at Kingston Canadian Film Festival (March 2023)
2024 TOUR DATES
April 17 - Vancouver, BC - The Pearl
April 18 - Kelowna, BC - Red Bird Brewing
April 19 - Squamish, BC - Cleveland Tavern
April 24 - Lethbridge, AB - The Slice
April 25 - Edmonton, AB - SOHO
April 26 - St. Albert, AB - Thirsty Rooster
April 27 - Calgary, AB - Webber Academy Performing Arts Theatre (Stampede City Sessions)
June 6 - Syracuse, NY - Funk n Waffles
June 7 - Brooklyn, NY - The Sultan Room
June 9 - Buffalo, NY - Mohawk Place
June 8 - Kingston, ON - YGK Craft Beer Fest
June 9 - Buffalo, NY - Mohawk Place
June 14 - Rochester, NY - The Montage Music Hall
June 15 - Providence, RI - Alchemy
June 28 - Ottawa, ON - The Rainbow
August 17 - Woodstock, ON - COWAPALOOZA
September 20 - Kingston, ON - The Broom Factory
September 21 - Ottawa, ON - The Rainbow
November 2 - Brockville, ON - Brockville Arts Hub
ASSETS
TEAM
- Artist: Kasador (kasadorband@gmail.com)
- Management: Liam Killeen (liam@roundonesportsandentertainment.com)
- CA Agent: Jeff Craib (jeff@feldman-agency.com) & Brendan McCarney (brendan@feldman-agency.com)
- PR: Auteur Research (adam@auteurresearch.com)
- Promotion and Distribution handled by Believe (Mark Costain)