Cass McCombs Interior Live Oak
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markjamie
August 20th 2025


1100 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Listened to your Top 2 Doof and your least favourite (Miss Mabee) and liked them all quite a lot so I guess I need to investigate.



EDIT: Really, really enjoyed my first listen. Title track was a big surprise and it's ace. Vocals are kind of the only thing holding me back a little - they feel somewhat... ordinary? like I'm listening to a good friend sing... not necessarily a bad thing, but it's kind of awkward at the same time.



This is just what I needed to hear right now.

Beardog
August 21st 2025


6489 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Sitting ill at home, let's see how this hits. Up for some chill music

Beardog
August 21st 2025


6489 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

OK so I turned it off at track 5 and checked the title track after. I can see the appeal but it doesn't work for me. This feels very adventurous but also very boring at the same time. Songs drag imo. Perhaps just me being ill today...

DoofDoof
August 21st 2025


17300 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

mj - I feel the same, this was the album I needed badly, and Cass isn't the greatest singer but I tell you what...give half these songs to Beck to sing and he'd over egg them to all hell. 'Miss Mabee' isn't a terrible song at all, and it is the right tempo/tone of song after 'Missionary Bell'...I just know he can and has written better similar songs in that style before and it ends up a little workaday.



Beardog - this is what a lot of people feel about McCombs throughout his career, he overstretches material and rambles through genres, but for me two or three songs clicked and then what was a messy discog became a fascinating discog.

Beardog
August 21st 2025


6489 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Yeah, I can see this clicking for some people, just not for me at this moment.

DoofDoof
August 21st 2025


17300 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Would have been interesting if he'd released an 8 or 10 song album from this material, as he has done a lot in the past.



I'd say the following ten song tracklist would have been the most approachable:



Priestess / Peace / Missionary Bell / Asphodel / Girl Named Dogie / Juvenile / I Never Dream About Trains / Van Wyck Expressway / Home At Last / Interior Live Oak

zakalwe
August 21st 2025


41955 Comments


I have a feeling this is going to be listened a fair whack over the next few months.


Hawks
Staff Reviewer
August 21st 2025


115992 Comments

Album Rating: 3.4

I gotta hear this asap.

Squiggly
August 30th 2025


1532 Comments


I love most of this and will be returning to let it grow on me, but "I Never Dream About Trains" and "Lola Montez Dance the Spider Dance" have some really stellar songwriting especially.

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
August 30th 2025


115992 Comments

Album Rating: 3.4

About to jam this finally.

DoofDoof
August 30th 2025


17300 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Fingers crossed, I hope you have the patience for this men

rabidfish
September 4th 2025


9003 Comments


So fucking good



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