The Cato Salsa Experience are clearly inspired by times long gone. Everything from their name to the artwork to the music itself is unmistakebly retro, but as frontman Cato points out, “We don’t necessarily want the music to be totally retro, maybe some pastiche kind of deal”. And granted, there are hints being dropped throughout “A Good Tip for a Good Time” that the band aren’t taking themselves entirely too seriously. The wholesale embrace of loopy riffs, various effects, “exploding drums” as the band state in the press release, and Detroit-style rock ‘n’ roll gives the record a wholly un-Norwegian energy and flair, all the while making mockery of the original, limiting characteristics of the genre they’ve familiarised themselves with.

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