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- Summary: The latest full-length release from California singer-songwriter Cass McCombs features contributions from such artists as Chris Cohen, Mike Bones, Papercuts' Jason Quever, and Matt Sweeney.
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- Record Label: Domino
- Genre(s): Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Indie Folk
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Aug 14, 202574-minute new double LP begins at the highest songwriting level and barely wavers.
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UncutAug 14, 2025These 16 ineluctably lovely songs are his most personally reflective for some time. they're also among his most structurally straightforward. [Sep 2025, p.33]
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Aug 18, 2025Though the album can be quite funny, it delivers the goods with no funny business—16 songs and not a throwaway among them, each an example of what works, rather than an experiment in what might.
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Record CollectorAug 14, 2025An album of layered, witty and fully felt elisions. [Sep 2025, p.105]
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Aug 22, 2025Ultimately, Interior Live Oak hits the richly rewarding territory of classic double albums by making the listener wonder whether its impact would be even stronger were it slimmed down to a single album whilst making it impossible to identify which tracks could be justifiably ditched to downsize the proceedings down to a more conventional 40 minute running order.
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Aug 14, 2025It’s an album that invites you in with warmth, unsettles you with its peculiar details, and leaves you somewhere between the past and the present, not entirely sure which is which.
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Aug 14, 2025Interior Live Oak is both a little more moving than the wry songwriter's typical output and a little on the long side (among the 16 songs are a handful of six- and seven-minute tracks), although it may be just the thing for a contemplative Sunday afternoon.