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DOWNLOAD: Cursive - From The Hips

Posted 3/3/2009 10:29 AM by Samuel Duke

Tags: emo, rock, indie

Cursive have been putting out records for over a decade, and each has been collection of creaky tell-alls and sharper, brasher rock songs, tunnels into the mind of a disturbingly talented and often super-depressing individual, frontman Tim Kasher. His last-legs whine and observant barflyism has produced a lot of beautiful songs about vice, loss, and general sadness, so when he opens "From The Hips" with the line, "I'm at my best when I'm at my worst," it might be the first time dude has lightened up a little and squeezed in a joke. Not that Mama, I'm Swollen, the band's sixth album for Saddle Creek and seventh overall, isn't full of some bummy moments. It's just there's a general pep sprinkled throughout, a turn to non-Ugly Organs and jazzy saxes, and the reflexive apathy of "From The Hips," if you can call it that, is a great example. Download the song below and head over to the band's website to buy a digital copy of the album. It's available for 3$ now and the price will increase a dollar each day until the official release date on March 10th. So, uh, hurry?

Sounds like: Rites Of Spring, The Good Life, Conor Oberst

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