{"product_id":"humor-risk-2","title":"Humor Risk","description":"Nomadic lo-fi indie rock malcontent Cass McCombs' sixth album (and second of 2011) begins with the couplet \"Love thine enemy\/But hate the lack of sincerity,\" a notion that acts as the foundation for the eight cuts on the hypnotic but illuminating Humor Risk. The aforementioned \"Love Thine Enemy\" is just one of three slow-burn rockers on the record that bring to mind Kurt Vile fronting the Church; the other two, \"The Same Thing\" and \"Robin Egg Blue,\" are prettier, but no less dissatisfied. It's a sound and style that work well with McCombs' obvious pop sensibilities, which tend to manifest themselves most successfully when the volume's turned up. Elsewhere, midtempo outings like the slacker-beat poetry anthem \"The Living Word\" and willowy psych-folk closer \"Mariah\" paint vivid portraits of amiable dissolution, and the languid and bible-bleak \"To Every Man His Chimera\" provides the collection's finest sentiment in \"Oh, Mary\/I'm just too much to carry.\" ~ James Christopher Monger","brand":"MovieMars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51566092255519,"sku":"801390030611","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/7833\/0399\/files\/1f6e36c212c68db8a3835a55d46ceeef_4983a8cb-0ab3-48b9-9c4f-634177c27505.jpg?v=1780313908","url":"https:\/\/www.moviemars.com\/products\/humor-risk-2","provider":"MovieMars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}