Happy Hollow
Happy Hollow
Release Date: 22 August 2006 (LP, CD)
Tracklist:
01. Opening The Hymnal / Babies – 2:32
02. Dorothy At Forty – 3:02
03. Big Bang – 3:56
04. Bad Sects – 3:39
05. Flag And Family – 2:56
06. Dorothy Dreams Of Tornados – 2:54
07. Retreat! – 3:57
08. The Sunks – 2:53
09. At Conception – 3:07
10. So-So Gigolo – 3:43
11. Bad Science – 2:40
12. Into The Fold – 4:16
13. Rise Up! Rise Up! – 3:22
14. Hymns For The Heathen – 2:39
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Happy Hollow
– saddle Creek
All was quiet in Camp Cursive for more than a year… And then, slowly at first, after much decompression and contemplation, they began to discuss and then assemble a new record as a freshly reconstituted four-piece:
the longtime core of Tim Kasher (vocals, guitar), Matt Maginn (bass), Clint Schnase (drums) and Ted Stevens (guitar, vocals).
The band’s re-emergence 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.
Happy Hollow takes the scalpel to its small-town inhabitants and their stories, dredging up debates of intelligent design, blind devotion, homosexuality and patriotism, while calling out false virtue, righteous cant and sanctimonious liars to create a literate, impassioned and empirical look at organized religion arranged as 14 hymns for heathens.
THE ALBUM
Happy Hollow is Cursive’s fifth studio album. The cover depicts a postcard type of text of Happy Hollow.
The album revolves around a small, upper class, God-fearing town of the same name. The name Happy Hollow comes from the Historic District located west of Midtown Omaha, Nebraska, a neighborhood that was developed in 1880 surrounding Happy Hollow Blvd and was dubbed Omaha’s first suburb.
Each track in the album tells a different story of faults that the inhabitants of Happy Hollow portray that seem at odds with the town’s “perfect” image. The final track, “Hymns for the Heathen,” is an afterword of the album, describing the concepts explored in each of the 14 tracks.
The album has many biblical references, reflecting on Kasher’s Catholic upbringing.
ARTWORK
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