Cashes Rivers’ self-titled debut album releases Oct 26th. Get a free download of “As I Drift” at

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Here is what One Track Mind thinks of “As I Drift” give it a listen and vote for yourself.

“We can talk about it or we can shout about it,” sings vocalist Matthew Garcia of Des Moines’ Cashes Rivers. He proceeds to do both on “As I Drift,” a winning exercise in bipolar tunefulness that starts out sounding like a delicate Sufjan Stevens folk number before exploding into epic guitar noise (complete with a brass and string section) and ending with a jangly coda accompanied by discordant feedback squalls in the background.

Garcia’s vocals are the constant through the whole journey, starring in the folksy opening and providing a human anchor in the noisy chaos the song becomes. He draws obvious inspiration from the aforementioned Stevens, along with Conor Oberst, Neutral Milk Hotel, and The Flaming Lips, sharing their ability to blend the intimate with the epic with effortless ease. Fortunately, though, he knows the difference between inspiration and imitation and while it’s easy to hear echoes of other bands on “As I Drift,” it’s not easy to come up with an example of anyone Cashes Rivers sounds exactly like.

Cashes Rivers is the result of Garcia’s vision and it’s a pretty impressive accomplishment for a nineteen-year-old newlywed. Des Moines’ previous claim to musical fame was the nightmarish metal lunacy of Slipknot. Cashes Rivers stands a good chance of providing the extraordinarily nice people of Iowa a musical act that might be a little more representative of themselves – friendly, unpretentious, and hardworking, and more than happy to get by on talent instead of shock and gimmicks.

Look for “As I Drift” on Cashes Rivers’ self-titled debut full length, being released October 26th by Aqui Estamos Records.”

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