Cass McCombs Details New Album ‘Interior Live Oak’ & Shares ‘Peace’ Single

Cass McCombs will release a new album entitled Interior Live Oak, on August 22 through Domino. The singer-songwriter shared his 11th album’s single, “Peace.”

McCombs was inspired by his return to Domino, 2024 reissue series and the archival album Seed Cake On Leap Year, to work with some of his earliest Bay Area-based collaborators. Contributors to Interior Live Oak, whose title comes from a Northern California-native tree species, include Jason Quever of Papercuts and Chris Cohen.

McCombs also recorded parts of Interior Live Oak in New York City with regular cohorts, again working with guitarists Matt Sweeney and Mike Bones.

Along with “Peace,” the pending release’s 16-song tracklist contains the prior-shared “Priestess,” which McCombs premiered earlier this year during his Tiny Desk Concert.

Stream the new “straightforward rocker with serpentine riffs” single “Peace” and the album version of “Priestess” below:

Interior Live Oak Tracklist

1. Priestess
2. Peace
3. Missionary Bell
4. Miss Mabee
5. Home At Last
6. I’m Not Ashamed
7. Who Removed The Cellar Door?
8. A Girl Named Dogie
9. Asphodel
10. I Never Dream About Trains
11. Van Wyck Expressway
12. Lola Montez Danced The Spider Dance
13. Juvenile
14. Diamonds In The Mine
15. Strawberry Moon
16. Interior Live Oak