I Am Gemini
The latest convoluted concept album from Cursive is based on "twin brothers separated at birth" and "a classic struggle for the soul," but the real struggle is trying to make it all the way through.
A band seemingly never at rest, even when it’s broken up or on hiatus, Cursive has become faithfully temperamental. The new I Am Gemini—its seventh album and sixth for Saddle Creek—is almost a meta-reference to this, a sort of post-punk opera about two opposite and warring halves. Foregoing the traditional lyric…
Cursive is returning to telling a story from start to finish, and it's about time. Frontman Tim Kasher has been vocal in his interest in screenwriting and even helped pen 2008's Lovely, Still. And so, branching off that interest, I Am Gemini tells the story of estranged twins Cassius and Pollock.
I Am Gemini finds Cursive rediscovering both the fractured riffing of their earliest albums and the grand conceptual bent of albums such as The Ugly Organ, bolstered by the big, heavy production talents of Matt Bayles and the big thematic inclinations of
There's a Happy Hollow bonus track called, “No News is Bad News” where Tim Kasher sings, “It scares the shit out of me when weathered writers lose their steam / I'm only getting older and less interesting.” For years now, Kasher has seemingly been fighting that battle against writer's block. In all of his projects