The Muse: Cass McCombs, “The Same Thing”

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For his second album of 2011, the laconic Cass McCombs sounds no more or less urgent than usual, just ready to keep going and going, which is what you want in a songwriter who releases two albums in one year. The echoing call-response title phrase of “The Same Thing” meshes perfectly with a forward-stomping beat that occasionally turns into a Ray Manzarek-style organ interlude.

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