I'm going to start posting mini-reviews/reflections on some of the albums that really shaped me as I grew up. This is the music that I still to this day constantly listen to as it had a deep impact on me. Here it goes.
Cursive – The Storms of Early Summer: Semantics of Song
In my junior year of high school, I was just beginning to expand my musical tastes from the pop-punk that I had previously obsessed about to the more indie-rock/emo style that was mostly popular among college kids in the Midwest who all wore shitty glasses and even shittier sweaters. It was less than a year after Cursive released “Domestica,” which I consider to be their best record. Yet their earlier record, “The Storms of Early Summer: Semantics of Song,” is really the album that drew me in and got me hooked on them.
I actually stole this cd from an acquaintance. He was an older friend who was in college, and while I was over at his house one day I pocketed a few cd's of his that were just laying out not in their cases. The ones I remember taking were this Cursive album, a Texas is the Reason album, and the self-titled Planes Mistaken for Stars album. It was a damn good haul for me.
What really captured me about this album was Tim Kasher's self-reflective lyrics and his ability to deliver them in a passionate way, yet having a relaxed drawl to his voice. It was the perfect type of intensity that I was looking for, as the passion was the same I was feeling as a confused kid dealing with angst and love and society and simply just growing up.
It was perfect timing too, as Cursive started to slowly change in later releases as they became more self-aware of themselves. They recognized their own style, and even began to comment on it in their own songs. For me, this caused them to lose their genuine and unique qualities that they had. While I do still like them, their later albums just didn't connect with me as much as I connected with “...Semantics of Song.”
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