Mistletone

CASS MCCOMBS SYDNEY SHOW: Thursday, February 6 @ Oxford Art Factory w/- Melodie Nelson. Tickets on sale now from Moshtix. Presented by Mistletone & 2SER.

Golden singer/songwriter of our time, CASS McCOMBS has traversed many borders, literally and figuratively, since his great debut Not The Way in 2003. Americana, bedroom pop, folk and chamber music have variously held the interest of the Baltimore native, but compelling storytelling and occasional flashes of humor are the common thread here. Cass’s 2011’s twin releases, Humour Risk and Wit’s End (Domino), highlights amongst a catalogue peppered with brilliance. His new double album for Domino Records, Big Wheel and Others, is a sprawling, visionary album that may just be his best yet. Big Wheel and Others is further proof of Cass’s status as one of his generation’s most visionary songwriters – as uncompromising, radical and counter-cultural as any other artist working today.

As Pitchfork noted, “he’s quietly become one of America’s finest chroniclers of fringe characters, a writer of heart-rending love songs and psychedelic odes to the natural world, a teller of tall-tales with a sense of humor dry as desert wood, and that rare folksinger who actually sings about the folk. Over the last decade, McCombs has been a remarkably consistent, if not publicity-averse, singer-songwriter, comparable to Bill Callahan and Will Oldham as our foremost translators of Old, Weird America into modern terms (and vice-versa).”