Everything those have come to love about Cass McCombs can be heard on Seed Cake On Leap Year. Already he had mastered the swooning, graceful melodies that seem transplanted from timeless songs across jukeboxes and transistor radios throughout America; same goes for his heady, gnarled way with conversational language that can bend righteous truths into riddles. “Songs are sung every day/So what can I say to find my own way?,” he announces in the opening line of “I’ve Played This Song Before.” And with those words he charts his own path, always rooted in tradition but facing the unknown.
Tracklist
- I’ve Played This Song Before
- Anchor Child
- Baby
- Gum Tree
- Wasted Again
- If I Was A Stranger
- You’re So Satanic
- Always In Transit
- What Else Can A Poor Boy Do
- Northern Train