You know those albums where each song has that one part -- the part that you wait for, the part that's good enough to make you listen to the same song repeatedly for an hour and a half while you're laid out catatonic on the floor or singing along in your car when you're already 20 minutes late for work? This is one of those. "Album of the Year" brings the evolving sound of The Good Life to fruition -- catchy, moody pop/rock that fluctuates between the all-ages club and the smoky cabaret, right alongside sin   [ read more ]

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The Good Life is reportedly the product of 12 years worth of songwriting on the part of Cursive vocalist Tim Kasher, which should give you a pretty good indication of the project's intimacy, intensity, and scope. Apparently during those 12 years Kasher has endured a fair amount of pain, because there's an awful lot of it in his emotional songwriting and his laborious, unbeautiful, excruciatingly sincere voice. If you're looking for Cursive's conceptual emo, you won't find it here; Kasher tends more towards    [ read more ]

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The Good Life began as a means for Tim Kasher to use a songwriting approach that differed from his other projects (namely, Cursive), but it didn't take long for the solo project to come into its own as a band. From the refined, quiet pop of the first LP, ?Novena on a Nocturn,? to the moody, hook-laden mixture of 2002's ?Black Out,' The Good Life has come to encapsulate its own distinct style based in diametric oppositions. Their newest EP is no exception. ?Lovers Need Lawyers? may very well be some of the h   [ read more ]

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Free bottle opener with code to download a non-album track with order! The songs on the band's fourth and finest LP were initially meant as the soundtrack to a screenplay that Tim Kasher (vocals, guitar, member of Cursive) started writing in 2006. These songs seemed to describe moments of raw emotion more than chronicle a linear tale, so the group kept them as close to their original incarnations as possible, recording them true to form. The results are more stripped down and threadbare th   [ read more ]

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Insound LP+MP3! Purchase the vinyl format of Help Wanted Nights and you'll receive a link to download the MP3s for free immediately after check-out! Free bottle opener with code to download a non-album track with order! VINYL FORMAT.The songs on the band's fourth and finest LP were initially meant as the soundtrack to a screenplay that Tim Kasher (vocals, guitar, member of Cursive) started writing in 2006. These songs seemed to describe moments of raw emotion more th   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. The Good Life began as a means for Tim Kasher to use a songwriting approach that differed from his other projects (namely, Cursive), but it didn't take long for the solo project to come into its own as a band. From the refined, quiet pop of the first LP, ?Novena on a Nocturn,? to the moody, hook-laden mixture of 2002's ?Black Out,' The Good Life has come to encapsulate its own distinct style based in diametric oppositions. Their newest EP is no exception. ?Lovers Need Lawyers? may very well be   [ read more ]

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The songs on the band's fourth and finest LP were initially meant as the soundtrack to a screenplay that Tim Kasher (vocals, guitar, member of Cursive) started writing in 2006. These songs seemed to describe moments of raw emotion more than chronicle a linear tale, so the group kept them as close to their original incarnations as possible, recording them true to form. The results are more stripped down and threadbare than previous Good Life creations. Yet the songs are also quite expansive, digging into dee   [ read more ]

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Tim Kasher sums up his latest project, the Good Life, aptly: "It's the culmination of twelve years of writing songs on the side, while also writing songs for a full band setting." Known for his work with the band Cursive, in which he walks the fine line between indie rock and melodic pop, here with The Good Life he takes full advantage of an ever-changing group of musicians to capture a unique sound -- an atmospheric walk through the pop idiom, with songs full of longing and lament. These are the    [ read more ]

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Essentially a solo project for Cursive's Tim Kasher, albeit with plenty of instrumental help from a variety of friends, the debut album from the Good Life is the culmination of 12 years of songwriting outside his full-time gig. Those 12 years must have been filled with some great bygone LPs and a fair helping of woe, because instead of the '90s indie pop of Cursive, Kasher explores stark and angular ground on Novena on a Nocturn that recalls no one more so than the Brit-pop icons of the 19   [ read more ]

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On the Good Life's 2004 Lovers Need Lawyers EP the band pares down its sound and comes across as a tough post-punk band rather than dramatic '80s synth pop revivalists. The electronic textures and careful arrangements are mostly gone, singer and bandleaderTim Kasher no longer sounds like he is channeling Robert Smith of the Cure, and the general level of despair and theater is dialed down considerably. Listeners who loved the broken, baroque drama of the first two albums may feel let do   [ read more ]

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The Good Life follow up the excellent Lovers Need Lawyers EP with their best record yet and maybe the best indie rock record of 2004. Album of the Year is a concept record of sorts, one song for each month, each song a heart-rending essay of love found, lost, broken, or ripped apart, ranging from the puppy love "Album of the Year" to the depressed, resigned-to-loss "A New Friend" and "Two Years This Month." Tim Kasher has found his voice, and almost all traces of previous {$Robert Sm   [ read more ]

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