Cass McCombs shares ‘Laughter is the Best Medicine’ video
Cass McCombs Band play London’s Scala 7 November 2016
‘Mangy Love’ out nor via ANTI-
Watch the ‘Laughter Is The Best Medicine’ video:
“One of the most compelling singer-songwriters of the past decade”
Uncut
“McCombs has yet to make a bad record, but Mangy Love is up there with his very best. Stunning”
4/5 Q
“This is another classic McCombs album”
4/5 NME
Having recently released his eighth studio album Mangy Love to critical acclaim, Cass McCombs has shared a video for ‘Laughter Is The Best Medicine’, ahead of his upcoming London date at Scala on 7 November.
The video – directed by Andrew Costigan – comes towards the end of a brilliant year for McCombs that has seen Mangy Love go on to be one of the most defining and lauded records of his career so far.
McCombs – accompanied by a full band – will tour North America and Europe from November, including the aforementioned London date. Joining Cass McCombs Band are friends & related acts from the underground: Delicate Steve, Be Gulls, Meg Baird, Big Search, Jack Name, Hush Arbors and more. Mangy Love is out now via ANTI-.
On tour:
1 Nov – Point Ephemere, Paris (FR)
2 Nov – Rotondes (Klub), Luxembourg (LU)
3 Nov – Misty Fest, S. Jorge (PT)
4 Nov – Kantine am Berghain, Berlin (DE)
5 Nov – Crossing Border Festival, The Hague (NL)
7 Nov – Scala, London (UK)
Praise for Mangy Love
“Lyrically as kaleidoscopic as mid-‘60s Dylan, and packed with fascinating references”
9/10 Uncut
“One of those rare albums that reveals a little more with every play”
4/5 The Observer
“This is music of rare guile and originality”
4.5/5 The Sun
“His most succinct and affecting work since the near-perfect Wit’s End”
4/5 MOJO
“McCombs sounds ready to make his commercial breakthrough”
4/5 Evening Standard
“Prepare to be smitten”
4/5 Metro
“Mangy Love is [his] most wide-ranging and direct album yet”
9/10 Future Music
“Mangy Love is a terrific, bizarre album made up of familiar parts rearranged into something new”
8/10 The Line of Best Fit
“Long live Cass McCombs”
8/10 Drowned in Sound
“Cass McCombs is one of our greatest modern day songwriters”
8/10 God Is In The TV
“You don’t often hear such accomplished playing and ambition”
4/5 Dork
“Mangy Love stands toe-to-toe with his best releases”
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