'HUMOR RISK' by CASS MCCOMBS
We fell in love with this CASS MCCOMBS when we saw him play in Leeds a few years back... He is enchanting and wonderful.
Released by DOMINO RECORDS, we were simply blown away when we properly listened to this album.
Cass McCombs is coming to play a special intimate limited capacity* show here at the Brudenell on Sunday 4th March, tickets are available here: - click here
CASS MCCOMBS - Official Website
DOMINO RECORDS - ARTIST PROFILE PAGE
Humor Risk - Album Biography
Cass McCombs is to released his second album late last year, Humor Risk, on November 7th on Domino Records.
Humor Risk was recorded in various homes and studios in California, New York, New Jersey and Chicago, and was produced by Cass McCombs and Ariel Rechtshaid, with whom he created Wit’s End, and before that, CATACOMBS.
Humor Risk is an attempt at laughter instead of confusion, chaos instead of morality, or, as fellow Northern Californian Jack London said, “I would rather be ashes than dust!”. Musically, it is more rhythm-based, tempos swifter to nearly rocking, than the sparse Wit’s End. Infectious melodies are outlined by a wry lyricism that expresses the stories of characters from McCombs’ native land. Rather than fulfilling the stereotype of the confessional singer-songwriter, he describes the lifestyles and feelings of those that surround him, with more love than judgment: drugs, Scientology, Western America, and so on, in allegorical form. Humor Risk portrays yet another face of this versatile and much underrated artist.
Humor Risk portrays yet another façade of this versatile, incredibly talented and much underrated artist.
Domino Records - Humor Risk Webpage - Click Here