Cass McCombs
Baltimore-based singer/songwriter Cass McCombs' moody but often surprisingly humorous music is aided and abetted by bassist Trevor Shimizu, keyboardist Natalie Conn, and drummer Dutch E. Germ (who has also played with Neil Michael Hagerty). Tours with the Oxes and Palace paved the way for McCombs' debut EP, 2002's Not the Way, which arrived on Monitor Records; A was released early the following year and was distributed in Europe and the U.K. by 4AD. McCombs and his band spent much of 2003 and 2004 touring, playing the {~All Tomorrow's Par...[more]
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VINYL FORMAT. Cass's fourth album, Catacombs, evokes simpler sounding works, A and PREfection. It's full of storied songs flush with emotional relevance and accessibility. Each track is cloaked in shiver inducing melodies that lay the perfect foundation for Cass' true source of transcendence - his vocals and lyrics. McCombs carries on transcending fad and fashion to ensure the art of songwriting lives on.
LP $19.98
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VINYL FORMAT. A shift of character, PREfection is a record of swooning romance, with a pristine guitar pop heart. The mood is a timeless one of slumbering, echo-y drums, ghostly organ drones, reverb-shuddering guitars, and Cass' vocals taking the foreground, towering with an understated emotive quality, either whispering in your ear or losing itself in its own melodies. Cass' words and lyrics on PREfection are nothing less than astounding. There are short stories with stray ends that need tyin [ read more ]
LP $11.99
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VINYL FORMAT. Cass McCombs currently resides in Baltimore MD, the home of the Ouija board. A voracious songwriter, Cass' decision to hone his band and music in Charm City's thriving creative climate is an apt one indeed. Inexpensive living, talented peers, and plenty of "alone time" make a perfect agar for young McCombs' fermentations. Armed with a wide-ranging knowledge of literature and a penchant for debauchery, Cass spears emotions and croons to the soul from a room on the south side of town. The criti [ read more ]
7" $4.40
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VINYL FORMAT. The music alternates between mania and wonder, within a song-form that McCombs continues to expand upon lyrically, often with the humorous, wry use of stories plucked from his own life experiences. This is his first release on Domino and follows 2005's PREfection.
LP $15.99
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