Cass Mccombs
Catacombs

Cass's fourth album and second for Domino evokes a return to his early, simpler sounding works. It's full of storied songs flush with emotional relevance and accessibility.

Cass McCombs, like a mid-career Bob Dylan, has a gift for arresting, ambiguous and heartfelt lyrics that act as conversations. His simple melodies are...

Gaining personal access is the name of the game in the world today, but the less we know about an artist can sometimes be beneficial. Indeed, mystique...

On the pointedly titled Catacombs, the willfully enigmatic Cass McCombs further seals his status as one of the 21st century’s most gifted and un...

Cass McCombs is a lovely person. He is small in stature and possessed of a quiet, soothing voice and a friendly demeanor. My boyfriend and I ran into ...

You Saved My Life from Catacombs at night when I get in. I can’t help it, it’s the prefect late night track, and Catacombs is excellent late night mus...

Spaced-out singer-songwriter Cass McCombs seems to be begging critics to take cheap shots at his fourth album of shape-shifting, Roy Orbison-tinged fo...

Cass McCombs works quietly. Over the course of three full-lengths and five years, McCombs has quickly slipped in and out of scenes, skipping from one ...

With the committed obliqueness of his lyrics and the adult-contemporary burnish that shines through his Morrissey-centered musical religion, Concord, ...

It?s hard to say if Cass McCombs has been slowly drifting further and further into depression over the years, or if he?s just madly in love with sad, ...