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85
The band’s latest album, Devourer, finds Cursive back on an outside label, Run for Cover, and the album is a true tour de force.
1y
80
Itβs rare for bands to still find themselves with important stuff to say when it comes to album number 10, but Cursiveβs dogmatic refusal to be pigeonholed and their frequently telling and prescient lyrics make them just as important as ever.
1y
75
Devourer is an angry little sucker, grown out of the rugged soil of a world on fire, and while Kasher once waxed poetic about how sucky life was, here, he seems fucking terrified by it.
1y
72
Cursive have rejected the risk of being uninteresting and they prove that on this album.
1y
70
Devourer‘s songs are the best Cursive have released since 2003, balancing a noisy attack and withering lyrics with some of their prettiest, accessible tracks.
1y
it's so funny how the animated cover for this is just the background getting bigger and smaller. it's not that it's bad, i just thought there'd be more (literally my view of the record)
SR: cursive, a band i'm getting back into thanks to this record, has a lot of history behind their name despite being one of the lesser known big players in the genre of emo and indie rock back in the 2000s. they have certified bangers like "domestica" and "the ugly ... read more
I cant help but get the vibe, especially after listening to all of their albums, including many Good Life albums, that they really were pushing themselves more stylistically than they have in at least a few album cycles. The general sound of this album is different from past releases with a slick production, occasionally reminiscent of Ugly Organ. However, some tracks simply don't land, just feel a little off for some reason.
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Track List
| 1 | Botch Job 2:46 | 58 |
| 2 | Up and Away 3:17 | 59 |
| 3 | The Avalanche of Our Demise 3:01 | 73 |
| 4 | Imposturing 3:06 | 75 |
| 5 | Rookie 5:02 | 63 |
| 6 | Dead End Days 3:04 | 50 |
| 7 | What the Fuck 4:01 | 43 |
| 8 | Bloodbather 3:40 | 40 |
| 9 | Dark Star 4:32 | 55 |
| 10 | Consumers 3:18 | |
| 11 | What Do We Do Now 4:15 | |
| 12 | The Age of Impotence 3:41 | |
| 13 | The Loss 4:38 |
Total Length: 48 minutes
