Vitriola Cursive SKU: BSM239V Barcode: 5060366786463 19.00 £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Big Scary Monsters Released Date: 5th October 2018 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Six years since their last record, Cursive are back with their eighth album – Vitriola, out 5th October via Big Scary Monsters. Over the past two decades, the band have 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 Domestica dealt with divorce; 2003’s The Ugly Organ tackled art, sex, and relationships; 2006’s Happy Hollow skewered organized religion; 2009’s Mama, I’m Swollen grappled with the human condition and social morality; and 2012’s I Am Gemini explored the battle between good and evil. But the band’s remarkable eighth full-length, Vitriola, required a different approach — one less rigidly themed and more reactionary as the band struggles with existentialism veering towards nihilism and despair; the ways in which society, much like a writer, creates and destroys; and an oncoming dystopia that feels eerily near at hand. For the first time since Happy Hollow, the album reunites Tim Kasher, guitarist/singer Ted Stevens and bassist Matt Maginn with founding drummer Clint Schnase, as well as coproducer Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, M. Ward, Jenny Lewis) at ARC Studios in Omaha. They’re joined by Patrick Newbery on keys (who’s been a full-time member for years) and touring mainstay Megan Siebe on cello. Schnase and Maginn are in rare form, picking up right where they left off with a rhythmic lockstep of viscera-vibrating bass and toms, providing a foundation for Kasher and Stevens’ intertwining guitars and Newbery and Siebe’s cinematic flourishes. The album runs the sonic gamut between rich, resonant melodicism, Hitchcockian anxiety, and explosive catharsis — and no Cursive album would be complete without scream-along melodies and lyrics that, upon reflection, make for unlikely anthems. Previous Praise for Mama, I’m Swollen and Gemini: “…a dizzying range of amped-up hardcore (‘In The Now’), horn-powered country rock (‘I Couldn’t Love You’) and angular balladry (‘Let Me Up’). Cursive haven’t sounded this crazed and inspired since their breakthrough album, 2003’s The Ugly Organ.” – Rolling Stone “…Cursive rocking out at its best. Lyrically, frontman Tim Kasher never misses a step (see the men-as-animals ‘From The Hips’ and ‘Donkeys’), proving once again why he’s among indie rock’s greats.” – Billboard “…forceful, a demanding rock-driven opus…” – The A.V. Club “…Cursive’s noisiest, most sonically inventive release in years.” – Alternative Press “Consider this their peak.” – Consequence Of Sound “…a conceptual, innovative and challenging album…” – American Songwriter “It’s heady, it’s heavy, and it’s classic Cursive, now in twin territory.” – Under The Radar “On I Am Gemini, the band’s clang and clatter, guitar driven music is emblematic of all that is right with indie rock and post-punk” – Outburn “…a conceptual, innovative and challenging album…” – American Songwriter “It’s heady, it’s heavy, and it’s classic Cursive, now in twin territory.” – Under The Radar Artist Cursive Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Big Scary Monsters Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings SIDE A 1. Free To Be Or Not To Be You And Me 2. Pick Up The Pieces 3. It's Gonna Hurt 4. Under The Rainbow 5. Remorse SIDE B 1. Ouroboros 2. Everending 3. Ghost Writer 4. Life Savings 5. 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