Happy Hollow - Cursive
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 24 Critics What's this?

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Universal acclaim- based on 17 Ratings

  • Summary: The Tim Kasher-led band has lost its cellist (Gretta Cohn) but added a horn section for its latest release, produced, as always, by Mike Mogis.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 24
  2. Negative: 1 out of 24
  1. Even if you can't fully grasp the disc's existential subject matter, Happy Hollow is still a pleasure on the ears. [Sep 2006, p.207]
  2. 80
    Happy Hollow swings with the nutty abandon of Madness, sharpened with the literate punk frenzy of Fugazi. [Oct 2006, p.104]
  3. Although Cursive is still one of the best at what it does, "Happy Hollow" fails to live up to previous greatness.
  4. Happy Hollow is far too grouchy to be taken seriously.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 14
  2. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. MitchM
    10
    A fun ride the whole way through. Better than Ugly.
  2. KennyM
    10
    The most lyrically and musically progressive album that has come out in a long time...even if you don't dig the direction cursive has gone in since the ugly organ, you must agree this album is epic, well-written, and important to the advancement of alternative rock...and it has some bitchin' horns. Expand
  3. Andy
    8
    By any other band, this album would be incredible. However, Happy Hollow just doesn't match the perfection of their three previous full lenghts; Storms of Early Summer, Domestica, and Ugly Organ. The music is great but there is a slight fall-off in the lyrical content; the political views set forth I completely agree with, but the execution is a little weak on certain songs. Expand
  4. DrunkenMaster
    6
    Poor Tim Kasher -- no one feels pain like he does. Overwrought, melodramatic and terribly self indulgent. Grow up.

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