interesting, it hasn't been release on vinyl as far as i know. Domino says 5 tracks have never been released, and The State Will Take Care Of Me is one of those, i believe.
Releases:I Cannot Lie/ AYD - 7" Single (Monitor 2004)Twins - B-side to Sacred Heart (Monitor/4AD 2004)Minimum Wage - B-side to Dreams Come True Girl (Domino 2009)Poet’s Day - B-side to The Same Thing (Domino 2011)Bradley Manning/ Empty Promises - 7" Single (Domino 2012)Evangeline & Night Of The World - Split Single with Meat Puppets (Domino 2014)If You Loved Me Before… - Split Single with White Magic (Famous Class 2013)Three Men Sitting On A Hollow Log - Split Single with Michael Hurley (Secret Seven 2013)Lost River / Old River, Old As Angry, & Texas - 7" that came with Big Wheel and Others (Domino 2013)
That leaves Oatmeal, An Other, Traffic Of Souls, Catacombs Cow Cow Boogie, and The State Will Take Care Of Me.
― mizzell, Monday, 14 December 2015 19:20 (eight years ago) link
The track order seems chronological in some places but not in others. Here's my guess at the chronology of the unreleased tracks -
Oatmeal - pre I cannot lie/ AYDCatacombs Cow Cow Boogies - Catacombs era obviesTraffic of Souls - Catacombs era (his voice, the production and instrumentation)The State Will Take Care of Me - Wit's End era (his voice, the tape hiss and instrumentation)An Other - Humor Risk (Very reminiscent of mystery mail and the power pop style of other songs from that era)
Thoughts?
― Griff_Doge, Monday, 14 December 2015 21:18 (eight years ago) link
Tim - I messaged you but not sure if you got it, when I went to the PM page I noticed an email address was missing.
― Griff_Doge, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 17:48 (eight years ago) link
saw cass play on thursday and he is slowly morphing into a jam band act. he had two drummers! and lots of extended jams and some pretty great guitar solos by dan iead. i wish cass would solo more i like his guitar playing a lot.
also his record with the skiffle players is coming out next month! https://theskiffleplayers.bandcamp.com/
― mizzell, Sunday, 10 January 2016 19:14 (eight years ago) link
NYCTaper put up a recent show here: http://www.nyctaper.com/2016/01/cass-mccombs-january-7-2016-bowery-ballroom/
(I suppose music should still continue.)
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Monday, 11 January 2016 17:21 (eight years ago) link
Thanks for the heads up on that Skiffle Players project. I preordered it immediately after hearing that one previewed track. Sounds really nice.
― Evan, Monday, 11 January 2016 17:22 (eight years ago) link
yeah, it sounds lovely. excited it's coming out so soon.
that nyctaper post is the show i was at. kinda bummed that i missed those last two extended songs, but it was getting late on a school night.
― mizzell, Tuesday, 12 January 2016 17:12 (eight years ago) link
I feel silly I missed that show. I didn't have a good reason not to come out for it, except that I wasn't paying attention!
― Evan, Tuesday, 12 January 2016 18:52 (eight years ago) link
So the Skiffle Players album is nice enough. FWIW I like their "fake Floyd" better than their "fake Dead." There are two or three keepers, though. Pitchfork called it "low stakes" and after two listens I'd say that's pretty otm. Maybe I'd like it more if it came out in summmertime; it's not at all a winter record.
― Wimmels, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 02:07 (eight years ago) link
this is pretty good: https://soundcloud.com/cass-mccombs/cass-band-tophane-musicians
"last halloween, we travelled to turkey for the very first time to perform at the akbank caz (jazz) festival. late that same night, we had an impromptu jam with some incredible & talented local musicians, in the istanbul district of tophane. the recent attack in istanbul was only a few streets over to where this was recorded & our hearts go out to all our friends in turkey. one could title this jam 'halloween in istanbul', but as our new friends informed us, only bobos celebrate halloween in istanbul. some of the musicians are from the band gevende. nuff said, it was a magical and chaotic evening & hope you get something out of listening. peace through music & much love to turkey"
― adam, Friday, 25 March 2016 17:39 (eight years ago) link
upgrading from "pretty good" to "very good"
― adam, Friday, 25 March 2016 17:57 (eight years ago) link
New single is great
http://pitchfork.com/news/65669-cass-mccombs-announces-new-album-and-tour-shares-new-track-listen/
― Davey D, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 17:46 (seven years ago) link
Agreed! I really liked it
― Evan, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 18:07 (seven years ago) link
cool song
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 20:24 (seven years ago) link
I guess this song's going to be on the new album - https://soundcloud.com/darkdarks/sky-ferreira-rancid-girl
Update the forum if you get a freebird!
― Griff_Doge, Saturday, 18 June 2016 17:05 (seven years ago) link
wrong thread?
― Evan, Saturday, 18 June 2016 17:12 (seven years ago) link
Written with Jon Brion, Cass McCombs, and Fiona Apple collaborator Blake Mills.
― Allen (etaeoe), Saturday, 18 June 2016 17:18 (seven years ago) link
Gaz McCoombes
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 18 June 2016 19:31 (seven years ago) link
Mangy Love:
01 Bum Bum Bum02 Rancid Girl03 Laughter Is The Best Medicine04 Opposite House05 Medusa’s Outhouse06 Low Flyin Bird07 Cry08 Run Sister Run09 In A Chinese Alley10 It11 Switch12 I’m A Shoe
― Griff_Doge, Monday, 20 June 2016 15:31 (seven years ago) link
Presumably sung by him
― Griff_Doge, Monday, 20 June 2016 15:32 (seven years ago) link
I guess this is what we can expect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU4SNapX8EU
lol
― Griff_Doge, Monday, 20 June 2016 15:53 (seven years ago) link
New Song!
Run Sister Run -
https://soundcloud.com/antirecords/cass-mccombs-run-sister-run
― Griff_Doge, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 15:10 (seven years ago) link
I wanna like the new album, but little things rub me the wrong way. Some of these folky pop numbers have a stiff and forced feeling to me.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 August 2016 16:24 (seven years ago) link
I like about half of it. Wish there were more songs like "Medusa's Outhouse" and fewer like "Cry."
― Wimmels, Monday, 29 August 2016 18:55 (seven years ago) link
Same here
― niels, Monday, 29 August 2016 20:40 (seven years ago) link
It hasn't fully grasped me yet but I was having to listen to it in a browser at a desk and not walking around with headphones, so I feel like there's more to come from it. Bum Bum Bum is great.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 07:38 (seven years ago) link
Like half of it is great but it's just so...smooth
― bunny slopes, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 07:48 (seven years ago) link
"Bum Bum Bum" is definitely one of the good ones. And I like "Laughter Is The Best Medicine" (which admittedly contains some of the smoothness bunny mentions; definitely some Pat Metheny or Bob James moves in that intro) and "Opposte House," as well as the aforementioned "Medusa's Outhouse." The rest (basically the back half of the album) is where he loses me this time: "Cry," "In A Chinese Alley," "Run Sister Run," etc.
― Wimmels, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 09:28 (seven years ago) link
Im obsessed with that "medusa's outhouse" song. The album is really, really good. His best since "Catacombs" imo
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Thursday, 13 October 2016 01:39 (seven years ago) link
No way man. Humor Risk is his best!
― Wimmels, Thursday, 13 October 2016 09:23 (seven years ago) link
I'm pretty sure it's Wit's End
― niels, Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:37 (seven years ago) link
Big Wheel for me
― bunny slopes, Friday, 14 October 2016 08:15 (seven years ago) link
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― LUMBAGO MUJO, Friday, 14 October 2016 08:30 (seven years ago) link
^^^ one of my fave lyrics from the new album
― tylerw, Friday, 14 October 2016 14:18 (seven years ago) link
Dropping the Writ always moves me the most, Catacombs comes in second
― Evan, Friday, 14 October 2016 15:47 (seven years ago) link
Testament to an artist's greatness when there is no consensus on what is his or her best album
For me, it's Humor Risk > Catacombs > Wits End > Big Wheel > Dropping The Writ > Prefection > A > Mangy Love, and those first two are two of my favorite indie* records of all time
(*indie meaning guitar-based music made after 1985 that has vocals)
― Wimmels, Friday, 14 October 2016 16:15 (seven years ago) link
In fact, the only songwriters in this genre I have any time for in 2016 are Cass, Callahan, and Bejar.
― Wimmels, Friday, 14 October 2016 16:16 (seven years ago) link
That said, the new album remains a disappointment despite many listens
it has grown on me, i listened to it earlier this week and it sounded great aside from a couple of tracks. excited to see him here next week.
― na (NA), Friday, 14 October 2016 16:20 (seven years ago) link
http://headlineplanet.com/home/2016/12/11/cass-mccombs-scheduled-perform-december-16-ellen-degeneres-show/
― na (NA), Monday, 12 December 2016 20:38 (seven years ago) link
Weird
― Evan, Monday, 12 December 2016 20:59 (seven years ago) link
co-sign on Cass, Callahan and Bejar. 3 of the few people i will give a shit ton of time of day to nowadays.
latest Cass album is fantastic, and i finally got round to getting properly into Catacombs and Writ. fantastic catalogue he's built up.
― jamiesummerz, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 16:58 (seven years ago) link
Uu bad
I mean u smelll baaad
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 9 February 2017 00:51 (seven years ago) link
"Laughter Is the Best Medicine" sounds like DMB
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 18 August 2017 23:04 (six years ago) link
I feel like he's had trouble coming up with really nice vocal melodies since Catacombs/Wit's End. Catacombs is minimal AND has really memorable melodic vocal lines. He's settled on very similar sounding ones lately imo.
― Evan, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link
Saw him play basically an entire set of new material at Union Pool in Brooklyn a little while back. Material was much more rock/blues oriented than previous album but still strong. In the vein of "Mystery Mail". He mentioned the band had been in the studio.
Also, this is basically a dream come true:
https://www.jambase.com/article/full-set-video-phil-lesh-teams-cass-mccombs-grahame-lesh-alex-koford-ross-james
― Griff_Doge, Monday, 22 January 2018 14:50 (six years ago) link
I would love to hear Cass McCombs sing either of the other Jimi Hendrix Experience title tracks.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:52 (six years ago) link
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/files/2018/10/cass-mccombs-tip-sphere.jpg1. I Followed The River South To What2. The Great Pixley Train Robbery3. Estrella4. Absentee5. Real Life6. Sleeping Volcanoes7. Sidewalk Bop After Suicide8. Prayer For Another Day9. American Canyon Sutra10. Tying Up Loose Ends11. Rounder
Out Feb 8
― mizzell, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 13:46 (five years ago) link
after being ilx's resident cass superfan for a good bit, i have to say mangy love never grabbed me (i might not have even listened to it all the way through) and this new single isn't very promising, imo.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJd_bd9vBFc
― mizzell, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 13:48 (five years ago) link
I like it! But he's definitely settled into a more narrowed vocal approach and delivery. Literally echoing myself upthread, but it holds true with this new single too.
― Evan, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 14:35 (five years ago) link