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Cass McCombs drops the writ

Album titles are a listener’s first clue to am artist’s musical and lyrical intentions, so Dropping the Writ, Cass McCombs’ third album, leads us to some fun hypotheses. Is Writ a concept album about the conflict between a stubborn head of state and an equally hardheaded head of government? Or is it a full-length exploration of esoteric parliamentary procedure? It’s probably none of the above, but we’ll find out on October 9, when McCombs returns with his first album in nearly three years, and his first on Domino Records. What has taken McCombs so long? Well, there was the extensive...  read more