Stream: Cass McCombs, ‘Sleeping Volcanoes’

S.Lo on December 3rd, 2018

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With a decade-and-a-half of enviable prolificacy in his suitcase, Cass McCombs has released the first tease, “Sleeping Volcanoes,” off his ninth full-length album, “Tip of the Sphere,” out on Anti- Records on Feb. 8. Recorded entirely at Shahzad Ismaily’s Figure 8 Studios in Brooklyn and engineered by Sam Owens (aka Sam Evian), the album is a post-inaugural evolution from McCombs’ critically acclaimed 2016 album, “Mangy Love.” Continuing that thread, the singer tries to make sense of some senseless times. The new single is the album’s centerpiece, a catchy alt-folk tune with McCombs’ signature bright guitar melodies in between his pleads, “Help me Armageddon / Help me to be calm… Help me Armageddon / And I’ll help you with your song / We’re the refugees drifting through your dreams / Our shadow never sleeps / We’re all over the world… Little boys and girls / Don’t forget the old ones, too / Someday that might be you.” Of the origins of the song, McCombs explains that it’s about “people passing each other on the sidewalk unaware of the emotional volatility they are brushing past, like a sleeping volcano that could erupt at any moment.” Take a deep breath, press play and lay back as you float to this song (after e-signing that petition).

||| Stream: “Sleeping Volcanoes”