Cass McCombs is back at Domino. Collection of previously unreleased songs will be released on November 8th, 2024.
With "Seed Cake On Leap Year", Cass McCombs is releasing a collection of early, previously unreleased music recorded in Jason Quever's apartment at 924 Fulton Street in San Francisco while McCombs lived in Berkeley between 1999 and 2000. Everything that Cass McCombs' fans have come to love can be heard on "Seed Cake On Leap Year". Even at that time, he had mastered the graceful, floating melodies that seem to come from timeless songs from jukeboxes and transistor radios across America; as well as his profound, convoluted way of dealing with everyday language that can turn honest truths into riddles. "Songs are sung every day/So what can I say to find my own way?" he proclaims in the first line of "I've Played This Song Before". And with those words, he forges his own path, always rooted in tradition but embracing the unknown. What's remarkable about "Seed Cake On Leap Year" is how alive and raw these songs remain, full of insight and wonder, in dialogue with all that is yet to come. There's a raw honesty to this youth, and while this may be the rawest honesty Cass McCombs has ever allowed himself on an album, these songs only enhance and deepen the mystery.
