Here, as elsewhere on Album Of The Year, Kasher’s vocals are impassioned, direct, and remarkably mellifluous.Ĭonsisting of one continuous shot, the “Lovers Need Lawyers” clip is dizzy, disorienting, drunken, and fascinating. Busy with classic-pop chord changes, “Lovers Need Lawyers” is nearly a pub-rock song – underpinned by thick organ and bouncy bass guitar. The Lovers EP was an eruption of Eighties-inspired pop: synth and organ-rich, acoustic-driven, campfire singalong numbers about fleeing home, breaking up with your spouse, the intrinsic violence of sexual attraction, and the aesthetic worthlessness of the rock and roll enterprise. We first heard “Lovers Need Lawyers” on the EP that bears that same name. The production is dazzling, the arrangements are wide-ranging, and Kasher’s remarkable harmonic and melodic gifts have never been in clearer focus. Titled with typical Kasher irony, Album Of The Year features twelve songs – each corresponding to a calendar month. Now the group adds to the discography a new album that simultaneously summarizes and amplifies the achievements of its predecessors. The Good Life have already released two heralded albums – Novena On A Nocturn and the melancholy Black Out – and the sprightly, poppish (but lyrically downcast) Lovers Need Lawyers EP. As for his role as lead singer and guitarist of the very different Good Life – well, that’s not quite as well-known or well-publicized. You probably know the multifaceted Tim Kasher as the frontman and ideologue behind the ambitious, aggressive Cursive. The album is only available at tour venues and online through the Saddle Creek Records webstore.Hello, fellow music lovers – it’s Andy Gesner and the staff from HIP Video Promo to inform you of another great video that should go right on the air. It includes songs he wrote while touring for The Game of Monogamy. The follow-up to his first solo album, Bigamy: More Songs from the Monogamy Sessions, was released on Augon Saddle Creek Records. Once this guitar fell into disrepair he played a Gibson Les Paul, he has also used a Gibson RD in the past, but has recently been using a Gibson Melody Maker. During his years with Slowdown Virginia and early years with Cursive, Kasher played a silver Gibson Corvus II guitar. His first solo album, The Game of Monogamy, was released on Octoon Saddle Creek Records. In the fall of 2009, Kasher relocated to Montana to focus more explicitly on his writing. While also working on new music with both Cursive and The Good Life, Kasher has recently taken up writing screenplays. In 2007, Kasher moved from Omaha to Los Angeles, California. Help Wanted Nights was released on September 11, 2007. The Good Life's fourth full-length album, Help Wanted Nights, was an album which Kasher wrote as a soundtrack for a screenplay which he started writing in 2006 and has since finished. After healing, recording on The Ugly Organ began. Because he lacked health insurance, Saddle Creek asked fans for donations to help pay for the cost of the operation. In 2002, Kasher suffered a collapsed lung and was forced to cancel all US tour dates at the time. He then recruited Ryan Fox, Roger Lewis and Stefanie Drootin into the band and released Black Out, Lovers Need Lawyers EP and Album of the Year. He released Novena on a Nocturn on Better Looking Records. Kasher wanted to experiment with different types of lyrics and melodies. The Good Life was originally planned to be a solo project. According to interviews, Kasher went through a bitter divorce in 2000, which led to the regrouping of Cursive, as well as providing the inspiration for The Good Life album Black Out and Cursive's Domestica. Kasher married and moved to Portland, Oregon. Kasher temporarily disbanded Cursive after the departure of guitarist Steve Pedersen (who left to pursue a law degree at Duke University and now leads the Saddle Creek band Criteria). Furthermore, Oberst later sang backup on the song "Staying Alive," from Cursive's 2003 effort The Ugly Organ. In the Bright Eyes song "Nothing Gets Crossed Out," Oberst sings, "Tim, I've heard your album and it's better than good," referring to the album Black Out by Kasher's band, The Good Life, released in 2002 on Saddle Creek Records. They grew up in Nebraska together, went to the same Catholic high school, Creighton Prep. Kasher has a very close relationship with Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes. He also made a brief appearance with the Omaha band Commander Venus and The March Hares. Prior to those bands, Kasher was in a band called Slowdown Virginia. Tim Kasher (born August 19, 1974) is a musician from Omaha, Nebraska, and is the frontman of indie rock groups Cursive and The Good Life, both of which are on the Omaha based record label Saddle Creek Records.
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