Cursive Happy Hollow

3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[Cursive's Tim Kasher] asks questions, makes demands, promises impossibilities, explores the ugly places in the heart. But that's why he's an original..."
4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] set of more engaging musical arrangements, applying gospel voices and Dixieland horns to his band's spastic art-rock posturing."
"All that metaphysical hand-wringing makes for some knotty songs, but the band attacks them with zeal: brisk tempos, muscular riffs, and blasts of melody."
3 stars out of 5 -- "HAPPY HOLLOW serves up more emo with prog on the side, then adds dirty blues, cabaret and art-rock garnish."
"HAPPY HOLLOW is still a pleasure on the ears. While the horns, accordions and organs are nice textural touches, the core of the group...have never sounded better."
"[I]n place of Cohn's broad bow strokes are horn parts that burst like thought balloons and bombs, redirecting Cursive to a crazed junction of jazz, blues and bloodied ball-room punk."
4 stars out of 5 -- "HAPPY HOLLOW swings with the nutty abandon of Madness, sharpened with the literate punk frenzy of Fugazi."