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The Ugly Organ's radio friendly moments ensure that if Cursive wanted, they could easily rank among the likes of Puddle of Mudd and P.O.D. as one of US rock's biggest earners. But as the splenetic attack on mainstream metal "Art Is Hard" suggests ("your self-inflicted pain is getting too routine… keep churning out those hits 'til it's all the same old shit"), big bucks aren't high on Cursive's list of priorities. Instead, their third album is equal parts chart ready, battle cry and scarily warped perspective. Careering manically from murmured emotions, tuba pharps and folksy string quartets to hair teari
The Ugly Organ's radio friendly moments ensure that if Cursive wanted, they could easily rank among the likes of Puddle of Mudd and P.O.D. as one of US rock's biggest earners. But as the splenetic attack on mainstream metal "Art Is Hard" suggests ("your self-inflicted pain is getting too routine… keep churning out those hits 'til it's all the same old shit"), big bucks aren't high on Cursive's list of priorities. Instead, their third album is equal parts chart ready, battle cry and scarily warped perspective. Careering manically from murmured emotions, tuba pharps and folksy string quartets to hair tearing pain, "Butcher the Song", "A Gentle Man Caller" and "Bloody Murderer" could just as feasibly be descendants of anything by the Eels as At the Drive-In's rabid "One Armed Scissor". Work in the fact that singer Tim Kasher sounds every inch as wounded as The Cure's Robert Smith, and The Ugly Organ should be painfully self-aware. Yet with every track brandishing the same gifted pop nous that makes the dysfunctional trauma of "Some Red Handed Slight of Hand" unshakable, Cursive's musical car wreck is undoubtedly more cunning masterstroke than art-rock for the sake of it. --Dan Gennoe
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Manufacturer: Saddle Creek
Release date: 3 March 2003
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0648401505122 UPC: 648401505122
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