Cancers are an Athens-based alternative love child born to Ella Kaspar and Lenny Miller by way of Vancouver, Canada and New York City. The two met while toiling away on tour with their respective previous bands, and joined together out of a desire to craft their own music free from compromise. The result consists of crushing melodies, dreamy pop girl vocals, and new alternative guitars. While Cancers’ sound does evoke familiar grunge-era angst, Kaspar’s airy vocals, comparable to Beach House’s Victoria Legrand, distinguish the band from their predecessors, marrying vulnerability with sex.

With their debut album Fatten the Leeches, the couple crawl hand-in-hand through anguish, alienation, despair and into the light. Tired of being pigeon-holed in the lo-fi DIY of their past, the band enlisted Jack Endino to produce the album. Endino’s early work with Seattle heavy-weights like Nirvana, Hole, Babes in Toyland and Soundgarden, established him as a king of underground rock records, and has been referred to as “the godfather of grunge.”  Fatten the Leeches delivers, resolving Cancer’s adolescent lust for distortion and riffs with a satisfying pop sheen.

Recorded at Soundhouse Studio in Seattle, Fatten the Leeches will be released on CD & digital format on September 16 by their own label Kandy Kane Records, while Dead Broke Rekerds handles the cassette and vinyl. Cancers will be playing a string of Midwest and East coast cities this summer in support of their release.

What They’re Saying:

“Cancers should be your favorite band.” – Noisey

“perfect 90s pop rock, with cooing vocals and crunchy, greasy-haired guitars” – Bitch Magazine

“Their grungy guitars are more than a little inspired by those early Sub Pop bands, but singer Ella Kaspar takes an airier approach, more akin to the dream pop bands of that era.” – Brooklyn Vegan

“It’s short, snappy, full of awesomeness and if you’re a big fan of The Smashing Pumpkins or even to a certain extent Garbage, then you’re sure to become a Cancers follower.” - Subba-Cultcha

“If you like the Breeders, if you like REM, if you like a dramatic pop song that runs on hooks, drums, and adrenaline, you’ll dig this.” – Berkeley Place

“…some of the fuzziest, ’90s-est slacker punk since the summer of ’92.” – SLUG Mag

“crushing melodies, dreamy pop girl vocals, and new alternative guitars.” – The Fire Note

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