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
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.
I felt the same way about Mangy Love. His first dud, I think. Still, I'll be ordering the deluxe edition of this new one.
Have you heard the newest Skiffle Players LP? I think it came out earlier this month. I haven't gotten a chance to listen to it. The first one was OK in that low-stakes, sort-of-supergroup kinda way.
Can't listen to this new single yet (I'm at work), but looking forward to hearing it tonight.
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
I'm into the new track. I agree that he seems to have settled into a specific vocal approach and delivery, at least with his solo stuff. I think it started on Catacombs. Although Mangy Love had Medusa's outhouse and Low Flying Bird which are sing almost entirely in his higher register. Mangy Love was worth it for Bum Bum Bum, Medusa's Outhouse and I'm a Shoe which start, end and anchor the middle of the album (not in that order).
The new skiffle is worth a few listens at least. The stand out cass track to me is Oakland Scottish Rite Temple Waltz. At least half the albums vocals are lead by another/other singer. The other cass lead tracks have moments but nothing like his solo material or the first skiffle album.
― Griff_Doge, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 18:30 (five years ago) link
New Skiffle Players is pretty good, though most of the longer songs could stand to be two minutes shorter. "You'll Miss It When It's Gone" sounds exactly like a lost Byrds / Gene Clark tune. A lot of this just had me missing Beachwood Sparks. Do these guys play live?
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 2 November 2018 13:40 (five years ago) link
Also, is that the cover art for the new Cass album above? because
https://goo.gl/images/m3pg9E
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 2 November 2018 13:42 (five years ago) link
oops
https://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/batholith
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 2 November 2018 13:43 (five years ago) link
I love the first Skiffle Players record! 'Til Stone Day Comes was one of my favorite songs of the year. I don't know why really, it just relaxed me so much and was really nice in the car driving around upstate NY / rural NJ. I actually didn't know there was a new record! Thanks for the heads up.
― Evan, Friday, 2 November 2018 13:56 (five years ago) link
"You'll Miss It When It's Gone" sounds exactly like a lost Byrds / Gene Clark tune.
Just checked this out- love it!
― Evan, Friday, 2 November 2018 14:08 (five years ago) link
I like it too, but it'a little too on the nose imo
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 3 November 2018 02:24 (five years ago) link
I thought Wit's End was spectacular and keep expecting him to do something similar but maybe it was always an outlier
― niels, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
niels - same but I do like his whole catalog. I have a hard time picturing him being that emotionally indulgent again.
Also, new things:https://www.stereogum.com/2025732/cass-mccombs-estrella-take-away-show/video/
― Griff_Doge, Thursday, 13 December 2018 19:39 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UoZmzighMM
― mizzell, Monday, 28 January 2019 20:55 (five years ago) link
Well, it's here!
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/689658416/first-listen-cass-mccombs-tip-of-the-sphere
The write up is good. She really knows her stuff.
Def my favorite album since Big Wheel. Lotsa jamming on this one. Absentee scratches the Wit's End itch in a big way.
― Griff_Doge, Saturday, 2 February 2019 19:30 (five years ago) link
Yep, great so far. Never did connect with Mangy Love but seems like he's back on track
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 2 February 2019 20:39 (five years ago) link
I'm liking "estrella"
― . (Michael B), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 23:58 (five years ago) link
count me in the crew who never felt mangy love and is loving this new one. the beginning and ending jams are a blast.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 23:35 (five years ago) link