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New Cursive Album - Happy Hollow

empra  said about 5 years ago  or at  10:44AM on Wednesday, June 21 2006 in music

I finally got to listen to it - and deary deary me. Fucking rad! A lot more upbeat than the other stuff of theirs I've heard, but they pulled it off. I wouldn't have expected them to have been able to do that.

Horns a-go-go alright, but I dig it.

Will have to give it a couple more listens to be able to say much more about it. But first impression -

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knomadix  said about 5 years ago:

yep.. it's not bad. Some tracks grate on me, but maybe they just need more listens, the first two get better and better with every listen.. That flamenco styled guitar on track one is rad.


le_disco  said about 5 years ago:

fucking ay. cursive are the shit. well, so is anything on saddle creek...


gabbo  said about 5 years ago:

hopefully they tour this rekkid


fr3ky  said about 5 years ago:

i will reiterate my appreciation for the crazy horns in this new thread. it definitely is a grower and all the different things going on in the album make more sense after a while


empra  said about 5 years ago:

yeah, a couple of things grate me as well. mainly his lyrics. he has some really bloody corny lyrics. but most of it i'm loving.


knomadix  said about 5 years ago:

standouts for me so far..

opening the hynal babies
dorothy at forty
bad sects
the sunks
into the fold


coldspoonconspiracy  said about 5 years ago:

We're playing with these guys in a few weeks time.
Can't wait to hear Happy Hollow.... Ugly Organ and Domestica are deadly albums.


sam  said about 5 years ago:

It's leaked!? I need to hear this.


empra  said about 5 years ago:

argh! where are you playing with them?!


gathering storm  said about 5 years ago:

cursive are weird for me, i always like them at first (each album i hear) but then after maybe 2 more listens i hate it.


sam  said about 5 years ago:

Coldspoon are Irish, so I'd say Ireland.


gathering storm  said about 5 years ago:

good on coldspoon for getting support though! good dudes!


sam  said about 5 years ago:

BEST. BAND. EVER.

Well, one of my favs, at least.


empra  said about 5 years ago:

yay! how exciting!


I(K)R Directorate  said about 5 years ago:

I really didn't like it when I first heard it. After about 10 listens I'm liking it a lot more. I fucking hate the horns, to be 100% honest. But I hated the cello on the last record. So much of that stuff just sounds to me like fixing problems by chucking something else in there. I understand they've got to try new things to keep it moving forward but...yeah, I don't know if a horn section is the answer.

I like Bad Sects and Big Bang and the last song.

I really hope they tour. I've seen them once, while overseas (for Domestica) and they were great.


Ben  said about 5 years ago:

listening to it now... not really sure about it.


knomadix  said about 5 years ago:

first music vid off the album..

here



gabbo  said about 5 years ago:

i love these guys.
this album is excellent.

tour!


oort  said about 5 years ago:

curse ov are great, still yet to hear the new album, it features a track by POTATO MASTA (japan) who rules and will try get him down to melbourne sometimee soon...


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gabbo  said about 3 years ago:

not a bad album.

looks like a little bit of woodwind has snuck into it in place of the strings and brass from the previous 2 albums.


kazpatafta  said about 3 years ago:

I haven't felt any desire to listen to Cursive for about 4 years but am really enjoying maybe half of the new album. I feel like an angsty 17 year old again, it's great!


gabbo  said about 2 years ago:

this album rules.


MelonHCST  said about 6 months ago:

I Am Gemini out February 21.
I know I said it with MIS but if they don't come now, they never will.


gabbo  said about 6 months ago:

I'll be in the states just after that. Hope I bump into them on the promo trail.


MelonHCST  said about 6 months ago:

Seen them before gabbo?


gabbo  said about 6 months ago:

nope. damn keen to.


MelonHCST  said about 6 months ago:

Hope for your sake you do. I was lucky enough to see them in Atlanta after Mama came out and it was magical.


knomadix  said about 6 months ago:

I saw them in NY and they were awesome.


MelonHCST  said about 6 months ago:

Did they The Great Decay and The Casualty? They did when I did I saw them :)


knomadix  said about 6 months ago:

Yep..and a quite a few off domestica as well.


gabbo  said about 4 months ago:

crap.

their extensive tour for ''I am Gemini'' misses my tour schedule by 3 weeks. AND they are touring with Cymbals Eat Guitars.

ugh.


MelonHCST  said about 3 months ago:

gabbo  said about 3 months ago:

Ooh baby!


theboyleastlikelyto  said about 3 months ago:

Oh man, i didn't even know they had a new one coming out.

This has been a good year so far. First The Jealous Sound and now Cursive.


theboyleastlikelyto  said about 3 months ago:

After 8 listens to this album... awesome!


gabbo  said about 3 months ago:

i've given it 3. no real 'good' standout songs for me yet.

i'll keep plugging away.


theboyleastlikelyto  said about 3 months ago:

I'm loving the Double Dead, Gemini double.


MelonHCST  said about 3 months ago:

It's a grower but I'm definitely digging


MelonHCST  said about 1 month ago:

Reissuing Burst & Bloom for RSD. So now that's two of my favourite EPs being rereleased on the same day. Splendid.


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