Cursive performing 'Domestica'
Cursive performing 'Domestica' I’ve always recoiled a bit when Cursive gets labeled an emo band. While frontman Tim Kasher certainly spills his emotions all over the musical page in his songwriting, he does it with wry, grounded, biting bile and wrath, rather than the sort of whiny melodrama most folks associate with emo. The band’s 2001 “emo” classic Domestica illustrates this. The concept album about a married couple who learns to loathe one another — and perhaps most depressingly, stays together anyway — relies on huge, heavy alt-rock riffs and un...