Dorothy at Forty

The first single from Cursive's latest, Happy Hollow. The band's reemergence after 2003's critically acclaimed The Ugly Organ finds them self-assured and assertive as ever. Rather than retread familiar artistic ground, Cursive has unfurled their most adventurous and accomplished work to date. Happy Hollow is an expansion of the group's trademark discordant swell: dissonant yet distinctively melodic guitar sounds and front man Kasher's ever cathartic yowl now mesh and clash with horns, piano, accordion, and other instrumentation. The new songs are marked by a new bounce, a buoyant strut, and a recognition that hey, this is fun.