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| Artist: Cass Mccombs |
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Product Summary
Release Date: 11/8/2011
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Song Listing
Disc 1
Song Title
Sample
1. Love Thine Enemy ~ Cass McCombs
2. Living Word, The ~ Cass McCombs
3. Same Thing, The ~ Cass McCombs
4. To Every Man His Chimera ~ Cass McCombs
5. Robin Egg Blue ~ Cass McCombs
6. Mystery Mail ~ Cass McCombs
7. Meet Me At the Mannequin Gallery ~ Cass McCombs
8. Mariah ~ Cass McCombs
Album Notes and Credits
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Audio Mixer: Dave Schiffman. |
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Recording information: California; Chicago; New Jersey. |
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Nomadic lo-fi indie rock malcontent Cass McCombs' fifth album (and second of 2011) begins with the couplet "Love thine enemy/But hate the lack of sincerity," a notion that acts as the foundation for the eight cuts on the hypnotic but illuminating Humor Risk. The aforementioned "Love Thine Enemy" is just one of three slow-burn rockers on the record that bring to mind Kurt Vile fronting the Church; the other two, "The Same Thing" and "Robin Egg Blue," are prettier, but no less dissatisfied. It's a sound and style that works well with McCombs' obvious pop sensibilities, which tend to manifest themselves most successfully when the volume's turned up. Elsewhere, midtempo outings like the slacker-beat poetry anthem "The Living Word" and willowy psych-folk closer "Mariah" paint vivid portraits of amiable dissolution, and the languid and bible-bleak "To Every Man His Chimera" provides the collection's finest sentiment in "Oh, Mary/I'm just too much to carry." ~ James Christopher Monger |
Producer: Ariel Rechtshaid; Cass McCombs |
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Engineer: Zach Goheen; Eric Spring; Dave Schiffman; Ariel Rechtshaid; John Webster Johns; Cass McCombs |
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Compilation Appearances
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Technical Info
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Release Date : 11/08/2011 |
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Original Release Date : 2011 |
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Catalog ID : DNO306 |
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Label : Domino |
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Number of Discs : 1 |
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Mono/Stereo : Stereo |
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SPAR Code : n/a |
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UPC : 00801390030628 |
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (p.83)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "[D]owntempo numbers inject venom into plush chords -- see 'To Every Man His Chimera,' a chillingly real diss track that McCombs drapes in found sound."
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "[D]owntempo numbers inject venom into plush chords -- see 'To Every Man His Chimera,' a chillingly real diss track that McCombs drapes in found sound."
Spin (p.73)
- "McCombs' protests against love's insincerity are lifted by punk-lite bass....Suffering has rarely sounded so comforting."
- "McCombs' protests against love's insincerity are lifted by punk-lite bass....Suffering has rarely sounded so comforting."
CMJ - "The album's a marriage of McCombs' poetic and veiled lyrical style, and core Americana musicianship. Drums are snappy, guitars are never ornate, and melodies are at once deceptively simple and ear-catching."
Paste (magazine)
- "[With] songs that sound like lost tracks written by George Harrison, focusing on guitar melodies that sound simple but have a single note that makes them anything but."
- "[With] songs that sound like lost tracks written by George Harrison, focusing on guitar melodies that sound simple but have a single note that makes them anything but."
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