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The Ugly Organ (CD)

By: Cursive (Artist)

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Cursive Artist Snapshot:

A fixture of the early-2000s Omaha, Nebraska, indie-rock scene gathered around Saddle Creek records, Cursive purveyed a style of rock that incorporated the energy of punk with the angular, shifting structures of classic early-1990s indie bands. Lyrically, Cursive won over hearts and mind with an emotionally direct approach that was both honest and revealing, yet too literary to fall squarely into the emo camp. Creative, proficient, and intelligent, Cursive's music gives new meaning to the term "heartland rock."

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DISC 1 for The Ugly Organ (CD) Album By Cursive (Artist)
1   Ugly Organist, The
2   Some Red Handed Sleight Of Hand
3   Art Is Hard
4   Recluse, The
5   Herald! Frankenstein
6   Butcher The Song
7   Driftwood: A Fairy Tale
8   Gentleman Caller, A
9   Harold Weathervein
10   Bloody Murderer
11   Sierra
12   Staying Alive
 

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Review

Magnet (4/03, p.86) - "...An album on which Kasher makes his strongest musical statement....THE UGLY ORGAN is the best punk record you'll hear all year, articulate and amped all the same..."
CMJ (03/17/03, p.6) - "...The disc gushes like a passionate opera, fleshed out by jarring strings, guitar-punk sexuality and a nearly exhaustive poetic fervor..."
Mojo (Publisher) (4/03, p.102) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Cursive employ musical inventiveness and a healthy dose of self-awareness to set themselves apart....It's worth taking time to make Cursive's pain your own guilty pleasure..."

Title Note

This is an Enhanced CD, which contians both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.

Cursive: Tim Kasher (vocals, guitar, organ); Ted Stevens (guitar, background vocals); Greta Cohn (cello); Matt Magnin (bass); Clint Schnase (drums, percussion).

Recorded at Presto Studios, Lincoln, Nebraska.

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.

The fourth full-length album by Omaha-based indie band Cursive--the second after their 2000 reformation following an extended breakup--THE UGLY ORGAN continues with both the dark lyrical themes and more acoustic sound of its immediate predecessor, DOMESTICA. Where that album was explicitly about Cursive frontman Tim Kasher's apparently emotionally devastating divorce, THE UGLY ORGAN is both more general in its themes and more misanthropic in its attitude. Music business aggravations permeate "Butcher the Song" and "Art Is Hard," while more personal demons haunt "A Gentleman Caller" and "Some Red Handed Sleight of Hand." After the general undercurrent of negativity, however, the 10-minute closing epic, "Staying Alive" (not the Bee Gees favorite, naturally), ends the album on a far more hopeful although still stormy note. On that song, as throughout, Cursive's newest member, cellist Gretta Cohn, is the band's secret weapon, with her lyrical, emotionally resonant melodies providing flashes of sunshine in the album's otherwise pitch-black arrangements.

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5 out of 5 stars Genre: Shoegaze, May 13, 2008
By Jon89
Mixture of messed up lyricism and great musical talent. Something that will make you shoe gaze after ripping one and listening to this.

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