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 sorts o...   [ read more ]

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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 si...   [ 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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