Catacombs (album)

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Catacombs
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Studio album by
Cass McCombs
ReleasedJune 1, 2009
Genre Alternative country, folk
Length51:50
Label Domino
Producer Ariel Rechtshaid, Cass McCombs
Cass McCombs chronology
Dropping the Writ
(2007)		Catacombs
(2009)		 Wit's End
(2011)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
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Metacritic 76/100 [1]
Review scores
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Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
RockfeedbackStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Prefix Mag (9/10) [4]
Pitchfork Media (8.2/10) [5]
Gigwise.com Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [6]
NME (8/10) [7]

Catacombs is the fourth full-length album by Cass McCombs released on June 1, 2009 in the UK, and on July 7 in North America via Domino Records. The first single, "Dreams Come True Girl", was released on May 25, 2009. The single also features Academy Award-nominee Karen Black as backing vocals. The album was voted one of the 50 greatest albums of 2009 by Pitchfork Media. Music videos have been released for the songs "Dreams-Come-True-Girl", "You Saved My Life", and "The Executioner's Song".

Cass McCombs American singer-songwriter, composer, guitarist

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North America Continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere

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Domino Recording Company UK based record label founded in 1993

Domino Recording Company is a British independent record label based in London. There is also a wing of the label based in Brooklyn, New York that handles releases in the United States, as well as a German division called Domino Deutschland and a French division called Domino France. In addition, Stephen Pastel presides over the subsidiary label Geographic Music, which releases more 'unusual' music from Britain and outside of the Western world. In 2011, the company announced that it was beginning a book publishing division, The Domino Press.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Dreams-Come-True-Girl" – 5:20
  2. "Prima Donna" – 4:53
  3. "You Saved My Life" – 5:24
  4. "Don't Vote" – 5:26
  5. "The Executioner's Song" – 4:21
  6. "Harmonia" – 6:06
  7. "My Sister, My Spouse" – 5:14
  8. "Lionkiller Got Married" – 5:34
  9. "Eavesdropping on the Competition" – 3:53
  10. "Jonesy Boy" – 4:44
  11. "One Way to Go" – 2:55

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ "Catacombs by Cass McCombs" . Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  2. ↑ Allmusic review
  3. ↑ Rockfeedback. "- RFB" . Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  4. ↑ "Album Review: Cass McCombs - Catacombs" . Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  5. ↑ "Cass McCombs: Catacombs Album Review - Pitchfork" . Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  6. ↑ Jones, Huw (May 27, 2009). "Review: Cass McCombs - 'Catacombs' (Domino)". Archived from the original on 2 June 2009. Retrieved 22 June 2009.
  7. ↑ Robinson, Martin (May 27, 2009). "Review: Cass McCombs - Catacombs". IPC Media . Retrieved 22 June 2009.
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