Cass McCombs has released a surprise album, Seed Cake on Leap Year, out now and marking his return to Domino Recording Company. The release follows the recent reissues of 2002’s EP Not the Way, 2003’s A, and 2005’s PREfection via 4AD. Seed Cake on Leap Year is a collection of early, previously unreleased music recorded at Papercuts’ Jason Quever’s flat in San Francisco whilst McCombs was living in Berkeley between 1999 and 2000, at the turn of the century.
Always driven by a mindset...
Cass McCombs has released a surprise album, Seed Cake on Leap Year, out now and marking his return to Domino Recording Company. The release follows the recent reissues of 2002’s EP Not the Way, 2003’s A, and 2005’s PREfection via 4AD. Seed Cake on Leap Year is a collection of early, previously unreleased music recorded at Papercuts’ Jason Quever’s flat in San Francisco whilst McCombs was living in Berkeley between 1999 and 2000, at the turn of the century.
Always driven by a mindset of moving forward, this period marked a brief but productive phase in McCombs’ career before he hit the road, travelling across the country and eventually landing in New York City, where he would create the music that would go on to reach a wider audience. What’s remarkable about Seed Cake on Leap Year is how vibrant and raw these songs remain, full of insight and wonder, unknowingly in conversation with everything that was yet to come.
A music video for “Baby” is available above.
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