After releasing a dozen albums, EPs, and collections across the past twenty years, by now we thought we'd heard all there was to hear from melody man Cass McCombs. Surprise! Turns out he was making music before the dawn of time, with Seed Cake On Leap Year documenting previously unreleased early works from 1999 to 2000, while Cass was living San Francisco. Described by Boomkat as "a fragile throwback", this set of intimate recordings reveals the songwriting magic was there all along. - Flying Out
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
