Fortitude Valley - Cassini

Fortitude Valley follow up 2019’s debut single with the new single: “Cassini” Cassini is a scorching 2 and a half minutes of slacker-rock and power-pop, recalling the eponymous satellite’s lonely final days and fiery self-sacrifice. Laura Kovic elaborates: “In September 2017, National Geographic published the article ‘How NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Met Its Fiery End’ [1]. I thought it was so heart-breaking that this spacecraft that NASA had been following for almost 20 years had to be destroyed. In the song, I’ve anthropomorphised the spacecraft and personalised the story a bit, so it’s just between me and Cassini. Cassini is venturing out on a long, lonely journey that will inevitably end in its destruction just so I can see what it’s ‘like out there’. And even though I know how it’s going to end, it doesn’t make it any easier to say goodbye.” Fortitude Valley is the new outlet for the songwriting talents of Durham based Brisbanite Laura Kovic. Having spent the majority