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Now something of an auteur, the fourth instalment in Cass McCombs ' life and art is CATACOMBS , and it is a thing of rare imagination from an artist whose wisdom and mischief will appeal as much to those in the stately manors as his more familiar lost souls on skid row. Like his previous LP Dropping The Writ , CATACOMBS possesses that rare ability to attack both the listener's heart with its melodies and textures, and head with its poetry and themes. It is, as wretchedly hackneyed as it is to say, one of those albums ‘without category'. Indeed, it is somehow without influence or even form at times as McCombs hits dazzling heights of songwriting after his early LPs, A and PREfection had been looser, more raggedly glorious affairs. Both musically and lyrically, it is a watershed.
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