Attention all under-appreciated folk(ish) rockers who are currently struggling to get the fuck out of the shadow of Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes. Here’s a nickel’s worth of free advice from criminally underrated singer/songwriter/coffeeshop savant Cass “Who?” McCombs: put out more shit with your name on it.
So you say that you’ve already released a pretty damn fine album in 2011 and toured behind it significantly? Well, Cass McCombs says “fuck you.” It’s time to quit slacking off already and put out ANOTHER new LP to chum up the press waters and get your name mentioned. In McCombs’ case, that new album is coming out November 8 on Domino. It’s titled Humor Risk, and it was recorded piecemeal at various locations around the US (maybe even… Wisconsin???) with producer Ariel Rechtshaid, who also worked on WIT’S END and Catacombs. And now look at him: on top of our venerable news feed YET AGAIN. And where are you? Holed up in some wifi-enabled cabin somewhere (also known as Caribou Coffee) reading Tiny Mix Tapes and titling songs after various Suicide Girls you’ve never met.
Oh, and just in case you’re questioning the quality exhibited on a second LP in the same year, you can listen to a new track from Domino’s SoundCloud. See, it’s great. Not that it even matters.
Humor Risk tracklisting:
01. Love Thine Enemy
02. The Living Word
03. The Same Thing
04. To Every Man His Chimera
05. Robin Egg Blue
06. Mystery Mail
07. Meet Me at the Mannequin Gallery
08. Mariah (Sketch)
• Cass McCombs: http://cassmccombs.com
• Domino: http://www.dominorecordco.us
