# @thefader on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-12-02T18:24:52.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The FADER (@thefader) — https://gondola.cc/thefader

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Cass McCombs is a wanderer. He’s described himself in the past as a nomad, and reviews of his early albums almost all mention him sleeping in cars, on couches, and at campsites across the United States. Before releasing his debut album a little over two decades ago, he worked dozens of odd jobs — projectionist, demolition worker, painter — and it’s difficult to say whether or for how long he’s had a fixed address in the years since. There was a period in New York and some time spent in Baltimore, intermittent stays in California, where he was born, and a spell in London. Details are difficult to pin down, mostly because McCombs has no interest in discussing them.

He has become American pop music’s greatest living mystic, so it is a little strange to hear Seed Cake On Leap Year, a collection of previously unreleased songs from McCombs’s early years. Released in October by Domino Records alongside reissues of his first two full-length records, Seed Cake on Leap Year comprises 10 songs McCombs recorded at the turn of the millennium. There is no mystery about where, when, or how these songs were recorded. This all happened between 1999 and 2000, inside Jason Quever’s apartment at 924 Fulton Street in San Francisco. McCombs played into Quever’s Tascam 388 mixer.

Why release this music now, then? “There’s no reason,” McCombs said over a broken phone line a few days before the record came out in October. “I don’t know why we’re releasing it. Every time I would talk with Jason though, over the years, we would bring up these old songs that nobody’s ever heard except us. It felt like it could be something, finally.”

Read our interview at the link in bio, or head to TheFADER.com.

📸 Jason Quever

#CassMcCombs #SeedCakeOnLeapYear

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