The Good Life
Tim Kasher spent the end of the 1990s making powerful and somewhat underrated music as the lead singer and guitarist for the Omaha-based post-rock quartet Cursive, but the band never really allowed for him to explore any of his softer ideas and more personal sentiments. For years, the always-inventive songwriter had been storing his mellower ideas aside, occasionally playing them at local coffeehouse shows or in the company of friends, but never sharing them with a very wide audience. In 2000 all that changed, and while a newly re-formed Cursive was turning more heads...[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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