The price of top -class label shopping goes to Cass McCombs. With ten solo albums between 2003 and 2022, he went through the plate company stations 4AD, Domino and Anti. For many singers/songwriters, a contract with one of these labels would be a dream. Mccombs left a great impression everywhere. Which shows that he returned to Domino with his new album Interior Live Oak.
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His souvenir while seeing again: a large work. 16 pieces, 74 minutes, as if he had the album trimmed exactly to the playing time of a CD. In order to bring the spirits of his early albums into the studio, McCombs worked with his old musician friends, including Jason Quever, who published an indie-pop panel, which was wonderfully published under the name Papercuts. It is also thanks to him that Cass Mccombs branches off his new songs directly from the heart.
The compositions are still clever, that shows “Priestess”, which is reminiscent of Aztec Camera’s meadow-fresh indie pop, or the psychedelic-loving “Who Removed the Cellar Door?”, Which runs for six minutes and is not bored for a moment. Another minute longer: “Lola Montez Danced the Spider”, a Slowcore Americana piece, the memories of Jason Molina von Songs: Ohia waxed-no trace of hustle and bustle, but a certain inner tension is unmistakable.
This review first appeared in the MusikExpress 09/2025.