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NOVENA ON A NOCTURN FULL
Both sound fantastic, both have their high peaks and sweeping valleys, and both take full advantage of Tim Kasher's incredible lyricism. Features Song Lyrics for The Good Lifes Novena On A Nocturn album. It was released on Better Looking Records in 2000. The band is the side project of Tim Kasher, lead singer of Cursive. I can't decide which I like more: the unadulterated power of Cursive, or the tense, brooding arrangements of The Good Life. Novena on a Nocturn is the debut album of the band The Good Life from Omaha, Nebraska. 14 15 2002's Black Out was also a mostly solo effort with friends assisting in the recording, and was released on Saddle Creek Records. The music itself is just as creative and moving. Novena on a Nocturn touched on the same themes of Domestica, mainly ones of divorce and loss, and was noted in reviews for Kashers intense focus on his lyrics and personal storytelling. Is it okay to love music that was written out of such personal experiences? I feel like I am invading Tim Kasher's room and reading his journal without him knowing to sum this up in one phrase - this shit is amazing.
On one hand, I feel awful myself, for enjoying one man's sorrow and pain so much. Novena on a Nocturn, after all, is not about the light despite the cleverly ironic band name, its purpose is to exorcise all those personal demons that seem to travel in the darkness - listeners' own individual darknesses.Tim Kasher, the world owes you a great debt for suffering as much as you have and still being able to contribute some of the best, most heartfelt and emotional music ever written. Dark and icy imagery spots nearly every tune, and even when a subject like the sun is referenced, as on the final "Golden Exit," there is something cold and insidious and wintry about its appearance, as if nothing can thaw Kasher's anguish, nothing can break through the bleakness of his worldview. As the title suggests, the album has nearly religious connotations, and its nine 'novenas' delve into all the shadows and blue hues of nighttime. And yet there is an overwhelming sense that you are eavesdropping on a two-way conversation with Job-like epic proportions.
Kasher's songs are inconsolable prayers of lament and resignation, intimate and almost painfully introspective without exactly being overtly insular. Originally released in 2000 this is the first time Novena on a Nocturn has ever appeared on vinyl. It is sweeping, intense music with volumes of emotional resonance and a tragic undercurrent. The debut album from The Good Life finds Tim Kasher turning away from the heavier sounds he had become known for with Cursive and achieving a new depth of voice through acoustic instrumentation and more textured soundscapes. The music is minimalistic but also cleverly layered with intriguing sounds, particularly eerie keyboards and bits of electronics. Originally released in 2000 this is the first time Novena on a Nocturn has ever appeared on vin. Originally released in 2000, this is the first time Novena on a Nocturn has ever appeared on vi. In addition to their '80s forebears, the songs explore the timeless songcraft and painfully honest life-lessons of artists such as Jacques Brel, Kurt Weill, and Scott Walker. acoustic instrumentation and more textured soundscapes. acoustic instrumentation and more textured soundscapes. These are pure coffeehouse and cabaret tunes with a sustained atmosphere of haunting, world-weary ache. The dour and miserable sentiment of the Smiths and the Cure ("The Competition" would have fit perfectly on Disintegration) bleeds into the detached and alien sound of synth-pop combos like Human League and Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, with the lush, melodramatic theatricality of new romantics Soft Cell and Ultravox draping over each song like a wet blanket. must we always wait for sleep The Good Life Novena on a Nocturne If you think there is an error in translation, please click here.
Those 12 years must have been filled with some great bygone LPs and a fair helping of woe, because instead of the '90s indie pop of Cursive, Kasher explores stark and angular ground on Novena on a Nocturn that recalls no one more so than the Brit-pop icons of the 1980s. Essentially a solo project for Cursive's Tim Kasher, albeit with plenty of instrumental help from a variety of friends, the debut album from the Good Life is the culmination of 12 years of songwriting outside his full-time gig. The Good Life Novena On A Nocturn A Dim Entrance The Moon Red Handed Your Birthday Present An Acquaintance Strikes A Chord Twenty-Two What We Fall For.
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