Cass McMombs to release new album – Humor Risk, on 7th November 2011

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Rogue Mag Music CASS MCCOMBS TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM, HUMOR RISK, ON 7TH NOVEMBER 2011

The tireless Cass McCombs is set to release his second album this year, Humor Risk, on 7th November 2011. You can download the album track The Same Thing, for free, here: http://www.dominorecordco.com/cassmccombshumorrisk

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 will be available on CD (WIGCD281), LP (WIG281) and via digital download (WIG281D). To pre-order the album, click here: http://www.dominorecordco.com/humorrisk

The tracklisting for Humor Risk is as follows:

  1. Love Thine Enemy
  2. The Living Word
  3. The Same Thing
  4. To Every Man His Chimera
  5. Robin Egg Blue
  6. Mystery Mail
  7. Meet Me At the Mannequin Gallery
  8. Mariah (sketch)

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