Cass McCombs - Heartmind Available On:LP 36 years later

36 years later

neither Western nor extra-Western

Compared with its predecessor

& acceptance of change

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Cass McCombs - Heartmind Available On:LP 36 years laterSongs like "Karaoke" are a god level burst of powerpop perfection, as fetching as anything Cass has ever cut: Cass triangulates a perch of his very own out among The Go Betweens, The dB's, and The Cure,and vibrates there, a beacon. And then, of course, there is the song's playful if painful lyrical conceitthe lover who is making all the sacred motions of commitment but whose feelings may be no more deep or real than someone simply reading the lyrics