Blog: Aural Enjoyment

CURSIVE 's follow up to 2006's Happy Hollow , Mama, I'm Swollen hits hard, hits fast, but loses some steam on the back end. Starting strong with "In the Now", a stellar return to their pre- Domestica era "rockness," the record steadily slips into the same comfortable formula that essentially was Happy Hollow, making it exceedingly harder to tell the difference between Cursive and THE GOOD LIFE . To me, Cursive has always excelled in the loud, shout-y, dissonant, post-punk end of the spectrum. For about half of the record, they are truly [...]

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