Domestica is one of those albums that will grab you - whether it lets go depends on your taste.
Domestica is a concept album harping on the ugliness and beauty of love, a treatise on the pains of divorce and romance.
Cursive's Domestica is certainly one of the finest hard indie rock releases of the year thus far and has established an impressive staying capacity in my CD rotation.
Among the darkest and most uncomfortable albums I've ever heard. Deeply confrontational, angular and has the teeth/muscle to back up the bile that they're swimming thru to an ecstatic kind of hell world catharsis. Peak Emo.
Shoutsout to @riley :)
Damn, this was so much better than I was expecting it to be. I was expecting a mediocre emo album trying be the next American Football, but what I got instead was a really solid hardcore rock album with some good lyrics thrown on. I like how tracks on here were a lot more emotional than I was expecting, with the concept on here being about divorce and separation. In a weird way, this album is like a yelling stage 0.5 of something like "A Moon Shaped Pool" or ... read more
The melodies on here are so simple, and they mainly stay in the same key throughout the album, yet they’re constructed so uniquely, making them incredibly tasteful. This album sounds exactly like its album cover which I find really cool. This album is fantastic
| 1 | The Casualty 3:30 | 92 |
| 2 | The Martyr 3:57 | 92 |
| 3 | Shallow Means, Deep Ends 3:36 | 81 |
| 4 | Making Friends and Acquaintances 2:58 | 79 |
| 5 | A Red So Deep 4:40 | 81 |
| 6 | The Lament of Pretty Baby 3:15 | 80 |
| 7 | The Game of Who Needs Who the Worst 3:34 | 85 |
| 8 | The Radiator Hums 3:24 | 88 |
| 9 | The Night I Lost the Will to Fight 3:19 | 85 |