Cass McCombs - You Saved My Life
I really can’t rationalize why I’ve become so obsessed with Cass McCombs’ music. There’s something about his whole aesthetic which I don’t really understand or “get,” and yet I keep coming back to it. Sometimes his lyrics or song structures or style, even, may seem contrived or almost pretentious, but I can always sense a great deal of sincerity in everything he does. Every track that McCombs has produced is bloated with a despair that transcends simple lovesickness or other light affairs. Love isn’t enough. His music is that of great objectivity, as if he can see his own minute existence in the midst of a grander scheme which doesn’t acknowledge him.
I guess some people are just born with the weight of sadness inside of them, and regardless of how happy or contented they could possibly be, the sadness will always manifest itself in a physical form. I hear that in Cass McCombs’ music and I can understand that.
“The Seed”
A stop-motion papercraft ode to the life cycle.
