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  Review by: abileneINlove See others by this writer Only registered users can post comments 
 
Published on May 16th 2001
I was practically shaking when I bought this album, I was so excited. I'm just not a huge Cursive fan, but the circumstances this album was written made me sooooo excited! For those of you who are not familiar with Cursive, it's sounds like The Cure's vocals with Christie Front Drive-esque dissonance, but with the crunch of Sweep The Leg Johnny. Tim Casher, one of the premeir song writes of our day (He rivals Conor Oberst), got married after the last Cursive release and Domestica was supposed to be the slow, soft, love soaked, just-got-married, kind of album for Cursive. Well, he got divorced. Not that I'm happy, but I'm not sure what Domestica would've been if it wasn't for the divorce. The guitar crunches hard, the cymbals splash harder, and the vocals are so pained, so heartfelt, you want to send him a get-well card. The highlight tracks are "The Martyr," "The Casualty," "The Lament of Pretty Baby," and "The Radiator Hums." Most all the songs are good, these are just the standouts. Domestica is definitely a mood album. It is not a driving-to-a-show-on-a-Friday-night album. It's a I'm-so-lonely-my-heart-is-so-ugly-I-hate-myself-you-did-this-to-me kind of album. If you buy this album with a good mood, it will leave a bad taste in your mouth. However, if your in a despondent, existentialist mood, buy the album now. For those looking for a ground breaking indie album, this isn't it. It's good, it's solid, but it's no "Relationship of Command." Saddle-Creek puts out good stuff, but they will never breed a scene changing record. Some stuff is not listner friendly enough, and sometimes it just never gets enough attention to go past that. People who liked this also liked:           Please login or register to post comments. What are the benefits of having a Punknews.org account?
VVVhahahaha "but they will never breed a scene changing record." What a fucking shit review.. to the last poster, im guessing your name is for the used, finch and glasshead? ummm... you call that heavier shit? i just call it shit. great album........not really into this kinda music i like the heavier shit but this album rocks.........and to all you critics we dont give a fuck what punk is or isnt........music is music dickface............the used finchead cursive is good. end of story. Cursive Rocks!!! im tired of the bullshit is it punk or not let it go people good music is good music Y'all take yourselves too seriously. How would you know if he knew what good music is? You've never even met him. He was just pointing out that, out of the last 10 reviews, like 5 of them have been "Indie rock", and the page is called Punknews.org. It's nice that you're so "Open minded" to consider indie rock as punk, but if you're really so open minded, you wouldn't be getting all pissy cause someone has different views as yours. secondly I don't recall him saying "If it isnt punk it isn't good. He just mentioned that this isn't punk.... Which its not. Now, its time to get off youre little swively chair, and prove the classic belief that "Emo kid=Whiny bitch in a sweater" wrong. shut the hell up you idiot. reconginze good music when you see it. just becasue its not punk means its not good? youre a goddamn retard. punk is dead along with joey ramone. But Hum isn't punk and only punk is good so we should listen to only punk and stuff cuz punk is cool and anything that doesn't sound like punk is sucky and stuff. is this indierocknews.org now or what? seriously, i dont care if you like this stuff, but it's not punk, and in my opinion, not good. if you want something different from the normal fast, hardcore punk rock, get Hum "downward is heavenward". much louder, much more edge, and much, much better than Cursive. |
