The Good Life - Everybody’s Coming Down (2015) Hi-Res

Last year, Tim Kasher turned 40 and toured behind a reissue of Cursive's 2003 collection, The Ugly Organ, a record that played up the distasteful, compelling tics of its lead to provide gripping conflict and perverse pleasure. On his fifth album fronting the Good Life, he softens his takes on modern life with gentle, PG-13 humor and a tremendous lessening of stakes.
Taking the long view, Cursive frontman Tim Kasher’s trajectory appears more like that of a Hollywood journeyman than a musician. His most renowned work could be described as "reality programming"—Domestica, The Ugly Organ, and Black Out played up the distasteful and compelling tics of their narcissistic leads to provide gripping conflict and perverse pleasure. His brief residency in Los Angeles coincided with his "screenwriting" period, Happy Hollow and Help Wanted Nights creating self-contained, fictional cities filled with multi-dimensional characters and their questionable motivations (the libretto-assisted *I Am Gemini *was a one-off in musical theater). Since releasing music under his own name in 2010, Kasher has shifted to "sitcoms"—as with The Game of Monogamy and Adult Film, the Good Life’s Everybody’s Coming Down softens his takes on modern life with gentle, PG-13 humor and a tremendous lessening of stakes.