Tip Of The Sphere (LP)
Cass McCombs
Amoeba Review
02/06/2019
California singer-songwriter Cass McCombs’ latest, Tip of the Sphere, has a throwback, backroads Americana quality to it. This isn’t a reference to the LP’s expected focus on folk and country harmonies but more about how each track fits seamlessly next to its predecessor, weaving a mood, building an atmosphere — in short, this is that rarest of modern albums, one that’s meant to be listened to AS an album, not merely as a disparate collection of singles placed next to each other. McCombs’s lyrical obsessions are dark, his characters sharply drawn. He’s a natural storyteller, a gifted troubadour. Bittersweet and disarming, Cass McCombs paints a picture like no one else can on Tip Of The Sphere.
Track Listing
Side A Titles |
Artist |
Length |
---|---|---|
1.
I Followed The River South To What
|
Cass McCombs | 07:36 |
2.
The Great Pixley Train Robbery
|
Cass McCombs | 04:00 |
3.
Estrella
|
Cass McCombs | 04:36 |
Side B Titles |
Artist |
Length |
---|---|---|
1.
Absentee
|
Cass McCombs | 02:48 |
2.
Real Life
|
Cass McCombs | 05:15 |
3.
Sleeping Volcanoes
|
Cass McCombs | 04:27 |
Side C Titles |
Artist |
Length |
---|---|---|
1.
Sidewalk Bop After Suicide
|
Cass McCombs | 04:27 |
2.
Prayer For Another Day
|
Cass McCombs | 04:53 |
3.
American Canyon Sutra
|
Cass McCombs | 04:45 |
Side D Titles |
Artist |
Length |
---|---|---|
1.
Tying Up Loose Ends
|
Cass McCombs | 04:34 |
2.
Round
|
Cass McCombs | 10:09 |