Cursive - The Ugly Organ
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Artist: CursiveEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2003-03-04
Music Label: Saddle Creek
Soundtracks:
- The Ugly Organist
- Some Red Handed Slight Of Hand
- Art Is Hard
- The Recluse
- Herald! Frankenstein
- Butcher The Song
- Driftwood: A Fairy Tale
- A Gentleman Caller
- Harold Weathervein
- Bloody Murder
- Sierra
- Staying Alive
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Free Music Review: Lightyears beyond Domestica
Hit: 5 Stars
With all the dissonance in their great previous album Domestica it seems easy to label them a more emotionally driven modern Fugazi, but with this album Cursive forms their own identity unlike anyone else.
The album shows off every part of Tim Kasher's personality in a way the break up spat Domestica could not. Here you will find every personality trait including self loathing, sadness, hesitation about selling out, difficulty with relationships, and even a little tenderness; If they had come out in the depression soaked early 90s they would have been huge.
A lot of people refer to this as Emo. Now I have no idea what that means, but I get the impression that Emo applies to poppy screaming bands putting on a front of sadness to seem deep and artistic, whereas I believe every word Tim Kasher says here. The album is much closer to punk I think, contrasting extreme dissonance with beautiful classical strings for a very unique sound. The album closer "Staying Alive" is both at the same time, is a great epic, and is one of the great songs here.
I like almost every song here which I can't say for Domestica. Here the consistent quality of tracks like "Some Red Handed Sleight of Hand", "Art Is Hard", "The Recluse", "Driftwood", and Sierra" is amazing. I'm at the point where if I can find one amazing track on an album I'm satisfied, but to have six here means you need to hear this if you have ever liked Fugazi, Sonic Youth, or the harder edged parts of Nirvana. As far as albums that go knee deep into depression before having an incredibly inspiring final song, there are few competitors with "The Ugly Organ".
You could keep listening to safe music the rest of your life, or you could listen to something that finds the beauty in ugliness, and I think I'll go with the latter.
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