Humor Risk

by Cass McCombs

Humor Risk cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 8 November 2011
  • Label: Domino
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 41:09
  • Community rating: 3.72/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Arriving just months after his previous effort 'Wit's End', this project presents a significantly more relaxed and rhythmically driven collection of songs. 'Humor Risk' trades isolated gloom for a hazy, enigmatic brand of acoustic folk-rock, marked by literary and deeply poetic lyricism.

Genres

Descriptors: christian, jangly, folk, literary, acoustic, male-vocals, guitars, personal, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Love Thine Enemy (3:56)
  2. The Living Word (5:44)
  3. The Same Thing (6:12)
  4. To Every Man His Chimera (5:21)
  5. Robin Egg Blue (3:41)
  6. Mystery Mail (7:50)
  7. Meet Me At The Mannequin Gallery (4:27)
  8. Mariah (3:55)

Credits

  • Jay Rodriguez - primary artist, arranged by [horns], baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, berimbau, music by
  • Alessandro Morini - arranged by [horns], trumpet
  • Beppe Lisi - arranged by [horns], tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone
  • Massimo Morselli - arranged by [horns], trombone
  • Lurpak - bass
  • Mirco Zagnoli - drums
  • Steve Girotti - guitar
  • Marta Caffettieri - lead vocals, backing vocals

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