The Same ThingCass McCombs · 2011

pitchfork

“Cass McCombs probably didn’t need to title his second LP of 2011 Humor Risk for us to assume it would be a relatively lighter affair than WIT'S END, a record of superhuman bleakness containing laugh riots such as "County Line", the album's most upbeat number and inspiration for a squalid cinema vérité of heroin addicts. Comparatively, the opening major-key strums of "The Same Thing" are warm and w”