Cursive Album: “Silver Scooter & Cursive”

This is a good album, but its just a teaser of what quality of music these two bands are capable of. Tides Rush In is easily the best track on this split. Powerful stuff by Cursive, as always, but you should get a different album to get their full effect.

Out of the seven songs on this album, six of them are nothing special, to say the least. This was my first time hearing Silver Scooter and they did not make a good impression. The simplistic and boring songs are neither memorable nor able to keep my atttention. I have always loved Cursive, but I have to say that "Pulse" and "Returns and Exchanges" are a bit dry and subtle for their style. "Tides Rush In," however, is a phoenominal song that epidomizes the emotion and intensity that this band conveys. It's worth buying the CD just for that song alone, which is exactly why I got it.