MUSIC: CURSIVE "HAPPY HOLLOW"

ABOUT: Happy Hollow is the fifth album by the indie rock band Cursive. It was released on August 22, 2006 on Saddle Creek Records. The album is named after a rich neighborhood in Omaha, Nebraska.

The album is the first since the departure of cellist Gretta Cohn whose instrumentation was a fixture of the band's 2003 release The Ugly Organ. The album features significant five-piece horn arrangements courtesy of Nate Walcott.

The lyrics of Happy Hollow form a concept album of sorts, revolving around a small town and its inhabitants, and dealing with concepts such as religious dogma and hypocrisy.

This album came with a download code to download the songs in mp3 format directly from Saddle Creek Records. Pre-orders of the album came with a miniature license plate that had a code to download a bonus track entitled "No News Is Bad News".

TRACK LISTING:

1. "Opening the Hymnal / Babies" – 2:32
2. "Dorothy at Forty" – 3:02
3. "Big Bang" – 3:56
4. "Bad Sects" – 3:39
5. "Flag and Family" – 2:56
6. "Dorothy Dreams of Tornadoes" – 2:54
7. "Retreat!" – 3:57
8. "The Sunks" – 2:53
9. "At Conception" – 2:57
10. "So-So Gigolo" – 3:43
11. "Bad Science" – 2:40
12. "Into the Fold" – 4:16
13. "Rise Up! Rise Up!" – 3:22
14. "Hymns for the Heathen" – 2:39
15. "No News Is Bad News" (pre-order bonus track) – 2:08

MY FAVORITE TRACK:
BIG BANG


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