Casey (band)

The ''[[BBC]]'' called their music at "one moment as atmospheric as [[65daysofstatic|65DaysOfStatic]] or [[Explosions In The Sky]], the next as fierce and intense as anything in [[Deftones]]' back catalogue [sic]".{{cite web |title=CASEY |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/1s4hgwZsMgrqCRd3p9KTMLM/casey |website=[[BBC]] |access-date=19 September 2023}} ''Bring the Noise'' it as "packed to the rafters with emotionally charged guitar lines and captivating, heartfelt lyrics". ''[[Alternative Press (magazine)|Alternative Press]]'' called it a "mix of rhythmic atmosphere, spoken word, hardcore guitar and more into the tracks guaranteed to move you and tell you a vivid story.",

The ''[[BBC]]'' called their music at "one moment as atmospheric as [[65daysofstatic|65DaysOfStatic]] or [[Explosions In The Sky]], the next as fierce and intense as anything in [[Deftones]]' back catalogue [sic]".{{cite web |title=CASEY |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/1s4hgwZsMgrqCRd3p9KTMLM/casey |website=[[BBC]] |access-date=19 September 2023}} ''Bring the Noise'' it as "packed to the rafters with emotionally charged guitar lines and captivating, heartfelt lyrics". ''[[Alternative Press (magazine)|Alternative Press]]'' called it a "mix of rhythmic atmosphere, spoken word, hardcore guitar and more into the tracks guaranteed to move you and tell you a vivid story.",

They have cited influences including [[Dead Swans]], [[Bastions (band)|Bastions]], [[Landscapes (band)|Landscapes]], Departures, Up River,{{cite AV media |title=Tom Weaver from Casey |url=https://100wordspodcast.com/ |format= |work=100 Words or Less |type=Podcast |time=24m |access-date=2025-12-25 |quote=For a while there was a really huge rise of like chaotic post-hardcore, emotive hardcore what ever you want to call it... bands like Departures and Landscapes and Bastions and Dead Swans and Up River. There was a whole host of bands who came out for a while that was kind of the rise and rise of that sort of music, so it depended on how the scene went.}} [[Pianos Become the Teeth]], [[Touché Amoré]], [[mewithoutYou]], [[La Dispute (band)|La Dispute]], [[Stick to Your Guns (band)|Stick to Your Guns]],{{cite AV media |people=Tom Weaver |date=1 January 2017 |title=FMA 045: Tom Weaver (Casey) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPLzGsCr7ks |type=Video Interview |publisher=Fuck Money Attitude |access-date=17 November 2025 |quote=To begin with it was very very kind of Stick to Your Guns influenced... at the end of the practice I drove Max home... I had Touché Amoré on the radio, and he was like "I love this band"... Touché Amoré, La Dispute, Pianos Become the Teeth, along those lines and he was like "No, no, this is the kind of music I listen to and we found like seven or eight bands we both adored and we were like "Maybe we should start writing some stuff like that"... the kind of bands I was listening to... like La Dispute and mewithYou and earlier Pianos Become the Teeth}} [[Gatherers (band)|Gatherers]], [[Jonas Brothers]],{{cite web |last1=Trueman |first1=Gary |title=Interview: The Download Tapes - Casey |url=https://devolutionmagazine.co.uk/2023/06/24/interview-the-download-tapes-casey/ |website=Devolution Magazine |access-date=11 January 2026 |date=24 June 2023}} [[God Is an Astronaut]],{{cite web |last1=T |first1=Dobbin |title=IN CONVERSATION: Liam Torrance of Casey |url=https://boolintunes.com/interviews/in-conversation-liam-torrance-of-casey/ |website=Boolin Tunes |access-date=17 November 2025 |date=15 January 2024}} [[Circa Survive]],{{cite AV media |title=Tom Weaver from Casey |url=https://100wordspodcast.com/ |format= |work=100 Words or Less |type=Podcast |time=11m25s |access-date=2025-12-25 |quote=It's easy for us to say "All of our influence comes from Touché Amoré and Circa Survive", but in reality it's so much less specific than that.}} Explosions in the Sky, [[Foo Fighters]],{{cite web |last1=Richardson |first1=Jake |title=Casey: “Fulfilment is us communicating as a band again, and creating… |url=https://www.kerrang.com/casey-wales-post-hardcore-interview-tom-weaver-new-album-reunion-comeback-how-to-disappear |website=[[Kerrang!]] |access-date=17 November 2025 |language=en |date=8 January 2024}} [[This Will Destroy You]], [[Caspian (band)|Caspian]],{{cite web |title=INTERVIEW: Toby Evans – Casey |url=https://invictamagazine.com/interview-toby-evans-casey/ |access-date=16 September 2023}} [[Motion City Soundtrack]], [[Funeral for a Friend]], [[The Blackout (band)|the Blackout]], [[Hondo Maclean]], [[Aiden]], [[Hawthorne Heights]], the first two albums by [[A Day to Remember]]{{cite web |last1=Doria |first1=Matt |title=KICK OUT THE JAMS: CASEY // Bootleg Skating Games Have The Best Soundtracks |url=https://www.hysteriamag.com/kick-jams-casey-bootleg-skating-games-best-soundtracks/ |access-date=19 September 2023}} and [[Converge (band)|Converge]].{{cite web |last1=Emmons |first1=Toney |title=INTERVIEW – CASEY VOCALIST TOM WEAVER – "LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH" |url=https://new-transcendence.com/interview-casey-vocalist-tom/ |access-date=19 September 2023}} Following their reunion, Weaver would begin writing lyrics influenced by [[Holding Absence]] and [[Silent Planet]]. In an interview with ''Music&Riots'', Weaver stated that the band try not to consider genre when writing their music, explaining "if you take 20 second snapshots throughout the record we could just as easily be [[Comeback Kid (band)|Comeback Kid]] as we could [[Sigur Rós]]. I think in the internet age the concept of genre is becoming less and less relevant. People are fusing soundscapes in such diverse and dramatic ways that trying to pigeonhole an artist is becoming more difficult than it's ever been. We just make music that we love, if people listen to it and it resonates with them, then the genre is of no consequence".{{cite web |title=Our Interview With Tom Weaver of Casey |url=https://musicandriots.com/our-interview-with-tom-weaver-of-casey/ |access-date=19 September 2023}}

They have cited influences including [[Dead Swans]], [[Bastions (band)|Bastions]], [[Landscapes (band)|Landscapes]], Departures, Up River,{{cite AV media |title=Tom Weaver from Casey |url=https://100wordspodcast.com/ |format= |work=100 Words or Less |type=Podcast |time=24m |access-date=2025-12-25 |quote=For a while there was a really huge rise of like chaotic post-hardcore, emotive hardcore what ever you want to call it... bands like Departures and Landscapes and Bastions and Dead Swans and Up River. There was a whole host of bands who came out for a while that was kind of the rise and rise of that sort of music, so it depended on how the scene went.}} [[Pianos Become the Teeth]], [[Touché Amoré]], [[mewithoutYou]], [[La Dispute (band)|La Dispute]], [[Stick to Your Guns (band)|Stick to Your Guns]],{{cite AV media |people=Tom Weaver |date=1 January 2017 |title=FMA 045: Tom Weaver (Casey) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPLzGsCr7ks |type=Video Interview |publisher=Fuck Money Attitude |access-date=17 November 2025 |quote=To begin with it was very very kind of Stick to Your Guns influenced... at the end of the practice I drove Max home... I had Touché Amoré on the radio, and he was like "I love this band"... Touché Amoré, La Dispute, Pianos Become the Teeth, along those lines and he was like "No, no, this is the kind of music I listen to and we found like seven or eight bands we both adored and we were like "Maybe we should start writing some stuff like that"... the kind of bands I was listening to... like La Dispute and mewithYou and earlier Pianos Become the Teeth}} [[Gatherers (band)|Gatherers]], [[Jonas Brothers]],{{cite web |last1=Trueman |first1=Gary |title=Interview: The Download Tapes - Casey |url=https://devolutionmagazine.co.uk/2023/06/24/interview-the-download-tapes-casey/ |website=Devolution Magazine |access-date=11 January 2026 |date=24 June 2023}} [[God Is an Astronaut]],{{cite web |last1=T |first1=Dobbin |title=IN CONVERSATION: Liam Torrance of Casey |url=https://boolintunes.com/interviews/in-conversation-liam-torrance-of-casey/ |website=Boolin Tunes |access-date=17 November 2025 |date=15 January 2024}} [[Circa Survive]],{{cite AV media |title=Tom Weaver from Casey |url=https://100wordspodcast.com/ |format= |work=100 Words or Less |type=Podcast |time=11m25s |access-date=2025-12-25 |quote=It's easy for us to say "All of our influence comes from Touché Amoré and Circa Survive", but in reality it's so much less specific than that.}} Explosions in the Sky, [[Foo Fighters]],{{cite web |last1=Richardson |first1=Jake |title=Casey: “Fulfilment is us communicating as a band again, and creating… |url=https://www.kerrang.com/casey-wales-post-hardcore-interview-tom-weaver-new-album-reunion-comeback-how-to-disappear |website=[[Kerrang!]] |access-date=17 November 2025 |language=en |date=8 January 2024}} [[This Will Destroy You]], [[Caspian (band)|Caspian]],{{cite web |title=INTERVIEW: Toby Evans – Casey |url=https://invictamagazine.com/interview-toby-evans-casey/ |access-date=16 September 2023}} [[Motion City Soundtrack]], [[Funeral for a Friend]], [[The Blackout (band)|the Blackout]], [[Hondo Maclean]], [[Aiden (band)|Aiden]], [[Hawthorne Heights]], the first two albums by [[A Day to Remember]]{{cite web |last1=Doria |first1=Matt |title=KICK OUT THE JAMS: CASEY // Bootleg Skating Games Have The Best Soundtracks |url=https://www.hysteriamag.com/kick-jams-casey-bootleg-skating-games-best-soundtracks/ |access-date=19 September 2023}} and [[Converge (band)|Converge]].{{cite web |last1=Emmons |first1=Toney |title=INTERVIEW – CASEY VOCALIST TOM WEAVER – "LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH" |url=https://new-transcendence.com/interview-casey-vocalist-tom/ |access-date=19 September 2023}} Following their reunion, Weaver would begin writing lyrics influenced by [[Holding Absence]] and [[Silent Planet]]. In an interview with ''Music&Riots'', Weaver stated that the band try not to consider genre when writing their music, explaining "if you take 20 second snapshots throughout the record we could just as easily be [[Comeback Kid (band)|Comeback Kid]] as we could [[Sigur Rós]]. I think in the internet age the concept of genre is becoming less and less relevant. People are fusing soundscapes in such diverse and dramatic ways that trying to pigeonhole an artist is becoming more difficult than it's ever been. We just make music that we love, if people listen to it and it resonates with them, then the genre is of no consequence".{{cite web |title=Our Interview With Tom Weaver of Casey |url=https://musicandriots.com/our-interview-with-tom-weaver-of-casey/ |access-date=19 September 2023}}

They have been cited as an influence by [[:de:Normandie (Band)|Normandie]].{{cite web |title=Normandie – Tour Interview and Live Review |url=https://musicmattersgb.com/2017/12/17/normandie-tour-interview-and-live-review/ |website=Music Matters |access-date=17 January 2026 |language=en |date=17 December 2017}}

They have been cited as an influence by [[:de:Normandie (Band)|Normandie]].{{cite web |title=Normandie – Tour Interview and Live Review |url=https://musicmattersgb.com/2017/12/17/normandie-tour-interview-and-live-review/ |website=Music Matters |access-date=17 January 2026 |language=en |date=17 December 2017}}