So, Does Everyone Hate Cass McCombs?

It's the next three that are my favorite - Harmonia, My Sister My Spouse, and Lionkiller Got Married.

Have you heard the new track from this album yet? It's great.

http://vimeo.com/20794924

you saved my life is probably my favorite cass song overall.

County Line is sublime. Anyone else excited about Wits End? Heard anything else on it? Can't wait for this etc etc..

i can't wait for it either. haven't seen anything else from the album turn up anywhere, and i giess it has been pushed back to april 26

Heard this thing now. Unsure what to think. Very slow with lots of simple repeated melodic lines. A bit of piano. County Line still so great. Dreamy and lethargic. I hope my first impression is only the beginning of a beautiful relationship and not the end.

A Knock Upon the Door is jaw-dropping. 2 of these songs feature what may be a bass clarinet, one of my favorite instruments.

album is very dirge-y

haven't heard anything other than "county line" but it is a great great song. anticipating!

Superb album. A definite downer, but in a beautiful, uncompromising way. "County Line" is still the highlight IMO, but every song is woozy and gorgeous and spooky in all the right ways. Dude's a genius.

New album sounds good, but I already miss the twang that attracted me Catacombs. I have been in a country mood lately, though.

this album has most of the qualities i look for in music. lovely!

"county line" is just

I know, right? My favorite song of 2011.

wish there were more songs that sounded like this

i get a definite neil young vibe from it. neil young covering lionel richie or something.

with a healthy dollop of Leonard Cohen.... at least on the rest of the lp.

this album is fantastic

cass is dreamy.

this story is about the last album, but its probably the best thing i've read/ heard with him
http://www.wbez.org/episode-segments/cass-mccombs%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%84%A2-catacombs#

I *love* the weird, "too loud" bangs/smacks that act as snare noises on some of the longer songs late in the album- they're so jarring in the midst of how melancholic the tunes are

plus, "Buried Alive"! what a tune!

Okay I hate to be one of those guys that jumps all over something BNM'd on Pitchfork, but I was browsing at Reckless last night and "County Line" straight up stopped me in my tracks when the guy behind the counter put it on. Didn't know who it was at the time, but, damn, fantastic song.

I *love* the weird, "too loud" bangs/smacks that act as snare noises on some of the longer songs late in the album- they're so jarring in the midst of how melancholic the tunes are

plus, "Buried Alive"! what a tune!

― the tune is space, Wednesday, April 27, 2011

These caught me too. It sounds like a balloon being burst.

I also love that he is only conducting press on this record via letters in the post and that his current press shots were taken by a private investigator.

haha i was wondering about this photo

http://www.pitchperfectpr.com/images/hires/CassMcCombs2_photobyPaulValenciaPI.JPG

wit's end gets better and better. at first i was kind of luke warm on half the songs, now i love all of them except the lonely doll. especially liking hermit's cave and pleasant shadow song right now.

A Knock Upon the Door is jaw-dropping. 2 of these songs feature what may be a bass clarinet, one of my favorite instruments.

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album is very dirge-y

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u were v. otm with both these posts. good album. cass is still a fucking weirdo.

excellent, very quiet show last night in nyc. county line sounded great and just about everyone in the audience (including peter saarsgard) was grooving along to it. other highlights were meet me here at dawn, harmonia, equinox, and when the bible was wrote.

excellent, very quiet show last night in nyc. county line sounded great and just about everyone in the audience (including peter saarsgard) was grooving along to it. other highlights were meet me here at dawn, harmonia, equinox, and when the bible was wrote.

whoops sorry for that

album of the year

Wow, really? I can't get into it at all, aside from "County Line".

"County Line" is definitely track of the year, not so sure about heaping that much praise on the album as a whole yet.

The thing that broke it open for me was playing the tracks in a different order. I had to skip County Line altogethor cos its so sublime it was overshadowing everything. Now I pretty much like everything except for Lonely Doll and A knock upon the door. Memories Stain and Buried Alive in particular are stunning. I have even come round on Saturday which I thought was a serious misstep initially. Overall listening to this I can't help thinking how defiant and lacking in compromise - the whole thing is. I love the eccentric little touches ie on Memories Stain with that strange rattling drums that signal a change in direction- this just lifts the tune immeasurably and the beautiful coda. Lonely Doll and Knock I like the least because there is so little melodic development- but I wouldn't bet against that opinion changing too.

http://www.nyctaper.com/?p=5974

after this being hammered into me by repeated plays in the office, I am liking this quite a lot. are any of his past albums as good?

Catacombs is still my fav, by a good amount.

catacombs and maybe a are better, prefection nearly as good though different sound

ironically, even though A is the only one i physically own, i listen to it the least because the LP skips so much :(

Dropping the Writ is incredible, too.

Dude was amazing in Birmingham, AL Monday night. About 12-15 people there. Long versions of "Harmonia" and "Dreams Come True Girl." His band on this tour is incredible. People were complaining later about a 'lack of dynamics,' whatever that means (they played in complete darkness but for a flickering backdrop of projected lights behind them), but I thought it was the best show I've seen all year.

Lower Dens, who opened, were also awesome. Like if a Krautrock band knew how to write actual songs.

Sounds like a great show, wish they'd come to my town.
Still loving Lower Dens.

cool, he's rolling through here in a couple weeks, i think i 'm going.
haven't gotten heavily into the new one, but i just need to give it a few more listens i think.

Wits End is a perfect album and I love every song on it. I am going back to Dropping The Writ and Catacombs to find out if I was a cloth eared cunt for not really getting into them.

yeah, it is really good. wonder if the new one will be more "rock" though. that seemed to be the direction he was leaning in during the live show -- didn't even play very much from wits end.

def will be more uptempo and rock
seems like the two were recorded in the same group of sessions

"Windfall" off Dropping the Writ is seriously about the most beautiful thing ever right now.

Can't wait for Humour Risk. Was this part of the strategy all along, to release two records this year - one sad slow and deep and the other more up tempo- or did they just decide to put more stuff out after Wits End. Hard to get much info from the Mccombs camp. I guess thats how he likes it.

http://pitchfork.com/tv/special-presentation/1788-cass-mccombs/2917-more-or-less/

where do the first and third songs ("More or Less" and "Angel Blood") come from? are they on singles or something? i don't see them on the tracklists to any of his albums, including the one that's about to come out.

yeah, i guess they are newer than the new album. he played angel blood last time i saw him. not on any singles that i know of. his b-sides are good though.