#Cursive Vitriola Review

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Sleep Deprived Music Review: Cursive

Sleep Deprived Music Review: Cursive @CursiveTheBand #musicreview @15PassengerRec #newmusic #indiepunkrock

Cursive

If I were plotting revenge or planning some sort of coup, then Cursive would be on the Coup d’état playlist. In the words of Cursive (and the Cops theme song), what are you gonna do when they come for you?

Cursive has recently released their Get Fixed album. It’s sort of a companion to their last album, Vitriola, which was released last year at this time.

Their music is…

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Album Review: Cursive - Vitriola (Big Scary Monsters/15 Passenger)

Album Review: Cursive – Vitriola (Big Scary Monsters/15 Passenger)

Over the past two decades, Cursive has become known for writing smart, tightly woven concept albums where frontman Tim Kasher turns his unflinching gaze on specific, oftentimes challenging themes, and examines them with an incisively brutal honesty. But the band’s eighth full-length, Vitriola, required a different approach — one less rigidly themed and more responsive as the band struggles with…

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Album Review: Vitriola by Cursive

Album Review: #Vitriola by @cursivetheband

Cursive release their eighth album Vitriola on 28th September via Big Scary Monsters (UK/EU) / 15 Passenger (US). Over the past two decades, Cursive has become known for writing smart, tightly woven concept albums where frontman Tim Kasher turns his unflinching gaze on specific, oftentimes challenging themes, and examines them with an incisively brutal honesty. 2000’s Domesticadealt with divorce;…

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Album Review: Cursive - Vitriola

Album Review: @Cursivetheband - Vitriola (@saddlecreek) Cursive’s first new album in six years beckons you back to the bassinet.

The murderous sound of a cello bow drawn sharply back and forth, a pounded bass drum and Tim Kasher tauntingly singing…

“So I dug deep down, deep inside myself / To the pitted heart of this scabrous shell

Oddly all I found was a nest of cells / On the hunt for some significance / The indifference of the chromosome prevailed

So I dug deep back through a fractured past / Marriage work and school…

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Music reviews: Saint Sister, Lil Baby & Gunna, Cursive, Phosphorescent and more

PSYCH FOLK-POP Phosphorescent C'EST LA VIE (Dead Oceans/Inertia) He's part-high plains drifter, part-cowboy mystic, lying somewhere on a line between Harry Nilsson's sepia-tinged '70s laments and Bon Iver's beardy soul-scraping. On the new Phosphorescent album Matthew Houck continues the sonic arc he started with 2013's Muchacho and the ubiquitous track Song For Zula, which wrapped U2-like dynamics around the central thread of Johnny Cash's Ring Of Fire. On C'est La Vie No. 2 he aims for nothing less than Dylan or Cohen. The instrumentation trickles and pumps as he assembles mirrored lines about past and present: "I stood out in the night in an empty field and I called your name, I don't stand out all night in empty fields and call your name no more." The backstories to past albums have involved break-ups, upheavals and enforced isolation. C'est La Vie is different: love, fatherhood, moving from Brooklyn to Nashville, building a studio. That may suggest settling down, but it seems to have helped Houck drill down into more elemental songwriting, while continuing to be a genre-wanderer, from the skittery calypso of New Birth In New England to the Krautrock-meets-Velvet Underground sprawl of Around The Horn. BARRY DIVOLA HIP HOP Lil Baby & Gunna DRIP HARDER (Quality Control/YSL) This sees Atlanta's brightest stars, Lil Baby and Gunna, team up for their first collaborative album. After developing a charming formula on joint singles, the young rappers have found a captive audience in jaded hip-hop fans with melancholic ballads dusted in autotune. This year hip-hop surpassed rock to become the most popular genre, but a subsequent dip in quality has made listeners weary. Lil Baby and Gunna's dexterity offers a beacon of hope. Both are proteges of Atlanta pioneer Young Thug, and while his influence is palpable, this record sees the youngsters surpass him. Features from Drake (Never Recover), Lil Durk and NAV (Off White VLONE) are a welcome indulgence for those who savour star-studded hits. But Lil Baby and Gunna shine on their own. Baby's melodic vocals are soft around the edges in parallel with Gunna's disparate flow on Business Is Business. Belly, Lil Baby's solo moment, is an infectious coupling of pop and R&B, and Gunna follows with World Is Yours, matching him bar for bar. They bounce off one another with the sophistication of a relationship that spans decades, while growing with each collaboration. Drip Harder may just be the beginning. KISH LAL INDIE-ROCK Cursive VITRIOLA (15 Passenger) Nebraska's Cursive may not be a household name in Australia, but their cult-like following in indie-rock circles has kept fans eagerly awaiting every release since their 1997 debut. They are known for their acerbic, vitriolic and cathartic lyrics from singer Tim Kasher, and Vitriola, their eighth album, comes with the added bonus of anxiety and dread linked to the world's current state. This, however, isn't a bad thing. Opener Free To Be Or Not To Be You and Me is a dense, tense listen, with Kasher's voice following the rhythm of the crunching bass, and it sets the scene for an album offering little reprieve. While the more clear-cut melodies of acclaimed 2003 set The Ugly Organ may not be immediately present, they slowly reveal themselves, first on tunes like the more down-tempo Remorse and late-album standout Ghost Writer. Kasher, who has made a career outside of Cursive with solo albums and the folk-oriented the Good Life, has always felt most at home delivering the melodrama and angst out the front of this band, and while the last few records have fallen short, it seems Trump's America is just the place to reignite the fire. BRONWYN THOMPSON AVANT-ROCK Ceramic Dog YRU STILL HERE? (Northern Spy) Is this the year's angriest record? Marc Ribot is sick of seeing his Brooklyn friends and neighbours randomly arrested by the US Immigration and Customs Agency (contemptuously known as "La Migra"). When he's not baring his punk roots in tsunamis of fury like Personal Nancy, Muslim Jewish Resistance and F--- La Migra, he can turn to caustic satire, as on the world-beat Pennsylvania 6 6666, with its spitting commentary on cosy white homogeneity. Setting Ceramic Dog apart from other post-punk operatives is the fact that Ribot (guitar, vocals), Shahzad Ismaily (bass) and Ches Smith (drums) come from the pinnacle of New York's creative music scene, so no idea is off-limits and their imaginations range just as far as their virtuosity. Yet for all the sophistication at their disposal they prefer to preserve a garage-band rawness, even when they approach the relative tenderness of the title track, with its coiling, intersecting guitars. Ultimately I prefer the extended, psychedelic-tinted blowing on the humorously titled Shut That Kid Up and the even more bewitching Orthodoxy, underpinned by Neel Murgai's sitar. Angry, brilliant and sometimes plain beautiful, this album is certainly different. JOHN SHAND https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/music-reviews-saint-sister-lil-baby--gunna-cursive-phosphorescent-and-more-20181008-h16co4.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed

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