Cass McCombs presents 'Interior Live Oak,' an album showcasing his evolution as a songwriter. The opener, "Priestess," captures a nostalgic essence while the album features 16 solid tracks that intertwine folk, rock, and soul. McCombs' music resonates with familiar yet unique qualities, embodying character and story. Collaborations with Jason Quever create a deliberate and dynamic sound, incorporating various genres. This work balances settled tastes with ambition, reflecting a matured artistic perspective and solidifying McCombs' place in the postwar pop pantheon.
"Priestess," the solemnly funky opener of Interior Live Oak, glimmers with lime rickeys and wild horses, Ella Fitzgerald and John Prine, and the record often does little to dispel the illusion that it could have been made by Gordon Lightfoot in 1974.
Songs with gorgeous melodies, alert arrangements, and brilliant rhetorical mechanisms; songs that make you wow and hmm. Character songs, story songs, bardic American songs that array demotic talk on mythic patterns.
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