Cursive’s breakout album, Domestica, was one they never intended to make; as such, its heavy-hitting portrait of a marriage dissolved into divorce was something of a final fling in its own right. Since that point, Tim Kasher’s second-wind as a songwriter has found him crafting more melodic and well put-together works. The downside to this is that the albums that followed — The Ugly Organ, their biggest success to date, and its follow-up Happy Hollow — captured Kasher in a vicious cycle of trying to pin down scenes of middle-class life while backpedaling into writing songs about songwriting itself.
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