Cursive The Ugly Organ 2xLP deluxe vinyl record sealed reissue tim kasher
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"The Ugly Organ made landfall on March 4, 2003, the same day as Evanascence's Fallen and roughly two weeks before the start of the Iraq War. The darkest of the Bush era were settling in like a dense fog over the entire country, and the outlook was bleak. That made The Ugly Organ especially potent, its gloomy inward focus a natural reflection of the era. The press accolades came quickly, from the mainstream (Rolling Stone called it "a brilliant leap forward," and Entertainment Weekly said it "raised the Saddle Creek bar") to the niche (The A.V. Club called it "a potent piece of rock art," Alternative Press gave it a perfect score).
"With The Ugly Organ, Cursive made a landmark album for itself and Saddle Creek. It was the label’s 51st release and the second in what my colleague Marc Hawthorne called “Saddle Creek’s holy trinity” in his liner notes for The Faint’s Danse Macabre reissue: Danse Macabre, The Ugly Organ, and Bright Eyes’ I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning. (I’d argue more for Lifted or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground on that count, but I’ll save that for the next time I see Marc).
"Just prior to The Ugly Organ, Saddle Creek had released the celebratory compilation Saddle Creek 50, which included Cursive’s gleefully self-referential “Nonsense” (“I really don’t want to write another ‘I’m a dick’ song again”), which is included on this reissue. The label’s 49th release had been another Cursive joint, the “Art is Hard” single, which featured the explosive six-minute B-side “Sinner’s Serenade,” also included here. Rounding it out are four songs from Cursive’s split EP with Eastern Youth, 8 Teeth to Eat You - check out the ferocious playing by cellist Gretta Cohn on “Excerpts from Various Notes Strewn Around the Bedroom of April Connolly, Feb 24, 1997” - and two songs from the single for “The Recluse.” It’s an exhaustive-and exhausting-snap-shot of a band realizing its power and wielding it for maximum impact.
"And then Cursive was gone. Again. Taking another of its intermittent hiatuses. An unease has accompanied every album after The Ugly Organ that it could be the last one - no, for real this time. Maybe because The Ugly Organ capped an unprecedented productive streak, ending a three-record, three-year run with an album that can’t help but reflect the effort that went into it. The exhaustion, the ambivalence, the doubt, it all bleeds out of those 12 tracks. At the end of “Staying Alive,” the “ghost chorus” referenced in the liner notes sings, “The worst is over, Doo do Doo do Doo do Doo doo.” On second thought, maybe it’s neither hope nor resignation, but simple relief. The storm has passed. And it was a motherfucker." – Kyle Ryan, The A.V. Club
Features: • 180g vinyl includes MP3 download of entire album • Remastered deluxe package limited to 3000 2LP-set • 8 bonus tracks from the era, including 4 tracks from the 8 Teeth to Eat You Split EP previously unreleased on vinyl. • Extensive booklet with photos from the band’s archives, alternate album art sketches, a list of all tour dates from the era, show posters, and new liner notes written by The A.V. Club’s Kyle Ryan
Cursive The Ugly Organ - Deluxe Edition Track Listing:
LP1 - The Ugly Organ Remastered 1. The Ugly Organist 2. Some Red Handed Sleight of Hand 3. Art Is Hard 4. The Recluse 5. Herald! Frankenstein 6. Butcher the Song 7. Driftwood: A Fairy Tale 8. A Gentleman Caller 9. Harold Weathervein 10. Bloody Murder 11. Sierra 12. Staying Alive
LP2 - Bonus Tracks 1. Excerpts from Various Notes Strewn Around the Bedroom of April Connolly Feb 24, 1997 (originally appeared on 8 Teeth to Eat You) 2. Am I Not Yours? (originally appeared on 8 Teeth to Eat You) 3. Escape Artist (originally appeared on 8 Teeth to Eat You) 4. May Flowers (originally appeared on 8 Teeth to Eat You) 5. Sinner's Serenade (originally appeared on Art Is Hard single) 6. Nonsense (originally appeared on Saddle Creek 50) 7. Once (originally appeared on The Recluse single) 8. Adapt (originally appeared on The Recluse single)
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