It takes an exceptional band to release an album, EP, launch an international tour, and have their music featured on multiple national sports broadcasts all in the span of a few months.
Kasador is that band. You might have heard their song, “Golden” playing alongside the Toronto Blue Jay’s record-breaking season last fall. The song has hundreds of thousands of streams on Spotify, part of their popular third album, Momma Might’ve Raised a Fool, which released Nov. 4. Or maybe you know Kasador from their vibrant social media presence, constantly promoting new projects, like their current Canadian-U.K. tour.
Consisting of vocalist Cam Wyatt, ArtSci ’15, bassist Boris Baker, MSc ’18, drummer Stephen Abdubofuor and guitarist Thomas Draper, Kasador is a Kingston-born rock outlet ready to take on the world.
But the music comes first. “I think success [means] making good music. Liking what you do,” Wyatt said in an interview with The Journal. “Being a musician is playing music, so if you’re succeeding in playing music, you’re succeeding as a musician.”
Baker agrees that success lies in the process. Kasador has been hard at work writing music, at a near-relentless pace extending into 2026. “We’re always kind of releasing something,” Baker said in an interview with The Journal. “There’s always something new.”
The duo explained how the traditional, extended process of releasing music interferes with the creative process. “You write a song, do a hundred mixes of it, slightly re-write it, re-record the whole thing, wait for like a year and release it, and [then] you don’t even care about the song,” Wyatt said.
Baker added that industry practices typically advise artists to wait for the right time to release certain projects, contingent on several factors. “Don’t listen to people who tell you to wait to do anything,” Wyatt said.
In the past, Baker said, the band would record an album every couple of years, leaving plenty of time to play songs live and in the studio before release. Now, Kasador takes a quicker approach to writing material, bringing songs sometimes 80 per cent complete into the studio before recording.
If the band believes in the song, they’re inclined to release it as soon as possible. “Let’s get it out there and we’ll just write another one,” Wyatt said.
That was the approach to Kasador III, the band’s forthcoming EP on April 14. It features their new single, “Ultraviolet Daydream,” which released Jan. 31. Wyatt said the band began mixing the new EP just 12 days after recording it. A week later, it was mastered.
“We found a sustainable thing, where we can release an EP every six or seven months,” Wyatt said. The band’s developed a unique model. “We’ll just put out two EPs—that’s 10 songs—and then we’ll go record 3 more and cut the weakest ones [and] combine them for an album.”
Kasador’s driven creative process lines up with their holistic approach to music as a career, which Baker described as “sustainability.”
“It’s all about being sustainable. It’s about being able to release music at a cadence you feel good about, to post in a way you can do more often,” Baker said.
But releases don’t blow up out of nowhere; “You have to work it,” Wyatt said. This is why Kasador’s approach works.
Promoting music on social media, touring it, and workshopping it live are all part of this process. “It’s a lot easier to work [music] when it’s fresh, and you care about it,” Wyatt said.
Kasador is hard at work. As they embark on their Momma Might’ve Raised a Fool Tour, they look forward to playing together as a band in the U.K. for the first time. Many of the tour dates were secured by Wyatt and Baker themselves, reaching out to promoters and bands abroad to hop on bills.
The band’s endless hustle is also earning them success close to home: CBC asked if they could license Kasador’s song “Squeeze” for its broadcast of the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. A major accomplishment for Wyatt and Baker, who have been playing music together since their time in student bands at Queen’s.
Coming up, Kasador looks forward to their hometown stop at Kingston’s Broom Factory on Feb. 14, and continuing to tour, record, and release. Considering their success with all three endeavors, Kasador’s definitely one to watch.
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