Reprise Records' newest rock band Cavo will release their major label debut album, entitled Bright Nights * Dark Days, this summer. The album was produced by David Bendeth, known for his work with Breaking Benjamin, Paramore, and Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, among others.

With songs like the propulsive first single "Champagne," the uplifting power ballad "Let It Go," the blistering "Cry Wolf," and the strutting "Blame," the album is a passionately played collection of hard-hitting rock-and-roll with keenly felt lyrics about life, love, and the acceptance that comes with realizing that all we can do is to try and be the best person we can for those we love. "I think it's amazing when a songwriter can open up a piece of themselves and let the whole world see it," says frontman Casey Walker, who writes Cavo's lyrics. "It may not be beautiful, in fact it may be really ugly, but great art comes from an honest place. It has to. And that's what we try to do with our songs."

In a recent interview with Alternative Addiction, Walker said that the band’s choice to sing with Reprise just seemed like a natural choice.

“They were the one label who was always there and it just seemed like a consistent match.”

After years of playing his music and fighting just for the chance to be heard, Walker said that he couldn’t help feel a bit vindicated by the response that his music has finally started receiving.
“You’ve been playing in a band for eight or nine years, in your buddies’ basements and writing these songs, feeling like they never get recognized,” explained Walker.  “Now you play these songs for people and they are like ‘Wow, these are great songs, everyone should hear these songs.’  And you’re like ‘That’s what I have been saying for the last nine years!’

Drummer Chad La Roy is equally excited about the band’s chance to have their music heard on a national level.

"Signing with Reprise meant everything to us," La Roy explained. "It's a chance for the world to hear and feel our music and an opportunity that many people can only dream about."

Cavo's line-up — which also features Chris Hobbs on guitar,, and Brian Smith on bass — solidified after Smith came on board in 2006, while the original nucleus formed when Walker hooked up with Hobbs and La Roy in March 2001. The band released an independent album, The Painful Art of Letting Go, in 2006, and an EP, featuring "Champagne," in May 2008. Both albums had several songs featured on Alternative Addiciton's Unsigned Top 10 chart in 2007 and 2008.  The band's song "Gone" was also featured on Alternative Addiciton's The Addiciton V.9 compliation released in 2007.  Cavo signed with Reprise Records in October of last year.

In addition to Cavo's own songs, Bright Nights * Dark Days features an additional track, the powerfully emotional "Ghost," co-written by singer/songwriter and former Nixons front man Zac Maloy.

Look for Bright Nights * Dark Days in stores sometime this summer.

First Listen: "Champagne" by Cavo