Cass McCombs w/ Hand Habits at The Mystic Theatre

Cass McCombs:

Over the past twenty plus years, Cass McCombs has journeyed a singular path as an

uncompromising song-carver, guitarist and singer.

Along with the finest squadron of collaborators and bandmates, his music travels gracefully over

seemingly contradictory terrain, from infectious guitar riffage to intensely personal lyricism.

In 2024, 4AD reissued his first three groundbreaking albums. In September, Domino Records

released a lost album from the same period, Seed Cake On Leap Year.

Cass lives in New York City and is currently working on new recordings.

HAND HABITS:

For artists who have built a creative practice centered around vulnerability, what could possibly feel
more exposing? For Meg Duffy, the multi-instrumentalist and songwriter known as Hand Habits, it turns
out there are things even more daunting than excavating unhappiness or grappling with personal identity.
“For this record I had set out to write less as a way to process grief, dredge up trauma, or consider
heartache, and more as a way to tap into something that was surprisingly more challenging — to allow
myself to feel into in the given moment-the decision I made to no longer shape shift when it came to the
person I become in the face of love,” explains Duffy.