Great Reviews For PREfection
07 February 05
Cass McCombs's second album PREfection has been welcomed with open arms by Britain's music critics.
There have been a string of great reviews for the record. Here are some of the highlights :
"[Cass McCombs] comes close to perfection on PREfection" – The Sunday Times (4/5)
"Music infused with ... shimmery elegance - a drifting maudlin beauty as sweet and intoxicating as opium" - Vice ("Album of the Month", 10/10)
"There are murmurs of The Smiths, House Of Love and even The Bunnymen, but it’s a musical tangent that serves McCombs’s melodic ear and plaintive vocals extremely well. Highly recommended." – Uncut (4/5)
"A beautifully poised collection of spectral yet striking songs" – Music Week
"PREfection's diverse arrangements span rich, cymbal-crashing melancholia, garage surf reverberations and death-dealing honky-tonk. Those who fall for his croon are liable to do so in a big way." – Mojo (4/5)
"McCombs [returns with] an altogether more rock type of affair – richer, broader and cockier, but all executed in McCombs's own special way." – Rocksound (8/10)
"Shimmering atmospheres ... vocals are hazy and spangly reverb-drenched guitars melt with church organs." – Rip & Burn
"remarkable tunes" - Esquire (5/5)
PREfection is out now.