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about

It is only human to be concerned with our past. We want to share our lineage. We want to learn from what we did and see how it got us to where we are. It's the same reason you bought that ancestry DNA test and why you read the reviews of your last (according to critics: "car wreck of an...") album. Learning from what we did helps us as humans as well as artists.

"Can This Be It??" is Wet Cassettes' second compilation of 2021 and features four bands our co-founder, Billy Applegate, was involved in from 2008 until 2018. These albums have floated around on various CD-Rs, junk cassettes, and YouTube videos for years, but here they are collected and officially seeing the light of day for the first time. We offer these songs up to you to not only serve as an archive but to be able to see where we have progressed. From Billy himself:

"Before PARCH or Billy and the Bad Peach or Wet Cassettes, there was TOO LATE. We were a band from 2008 to 2018 on and off but mostly on. We recorded three times and every time, each recording would fully be done in a day. Everyone that ever played in Too Late was completely out of their mind, depressed, and pissed off. We played hundreds of shows through NJ and PA, lots of crazy house shows. We were never the cool guys and played by our own rules. PineyStyle.

BatShit was a band that started because me and Edgar (now of School Drugs) were listening to nothing but early screamo every day and night. I lived in a shell of a house that was the old office for a marine that my then friend's father owned. The wind ripped through the house like there were no walls at all. We found a drummer that Edgar knew and I had asked an old friend to play guitar. We recorded in the said house and then the drummer tried to fight my friends at my birthday party. 2014 was the beginning and end of the band.

Let Me Sleep was a product of hanging out with a few friends that were much younger than I am. We would sit in Wawa parking lots all night long every night drinking coffee with me showing them old screamo bands. We recorded directly to a laptop just sitting in the middle of the room that we put sweatshirts over so it would muffle the sound. The band lasted a few weeks in 2011. Young kids.

Scratched was a band that started because Antwonn (now of Billy and the Bad Peach) wanted to be a cowboy. Chris wanted to play NY hardcore punk and Kevin just wanted to slap the bass. Scratched recorded and then fell apart as fast as it started. I loved getting Chinese from the shitty place across the street from Antwonn’s apartment in Philly. Long rides in 2016 down route 70."

After taking this 11 song trip down a backroad time bog full of chaos and growth that crisscrossed the garden state, it makes one contemplate where they stand concerning the art that they create, and the people they created it with.

By flicking through these FM airwaves of the self, we see and hear the routes that form over time. Paths that connect one band, one friendship, one sound to another. We know how all roads eventually bring you back to the main drag, maybe a few miles ahead or behind where you once were, or meet a dead end.

To conclude, and to really keep our foot on the gas of the automotive metaphors, this album shows us that in life we're stuck in the passenger seat of a car driven by our art, our ego, our aspirations, and don't get too much time to rubberneck at our accidents or successes before moving onto the next. At the end of the day, we are left with a shitty, coffee stained map and no GPS as our only tools to figure out where we are going and what to do. We're left to discover and address a question which we must ask ourselves as we drive forward in creating and consuming to seemingly no end: "Can This Be It??"

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credits

released July 16, 2021

TOO LATE was (mostly) Billy, Josh, Ogo, Kyle/Joe

BATSHIT was Billy, Edgar, Rob, Lenny

LET ME SLEEP was Billy, Ogo, Muha, Joe, Edgar

SCRATCHED was Billy, Antwonn, Chris, Kevin

Assembly and artwork by Billy Applegate with some printing and layout assistance by Mike Devaney

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Please note that as of Feb 2024 we are on a paternity break
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est. 2018
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