Happy Hollow (album)

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Happy Hollow
Happy Hollow cover
Studio album by Cursive
Released August 22, 2006
Genre Indie rock
Length 45:26
Label Saddle Creek
Producer Tim Kasher and Mike Mogis
Professional reviews
Cursive chronology
The Difference Between Houses and Homes
(2005)		 Happy Hollow
(2006)

Happy Hollow is the fifth album by the indie rock band Cursive. It was released on August 22, 2006 on Saddle Creek Records. Saddle Creek Records began shipping pre-orders on August 8, 2006. The album is named after a rich neighborhood in Omaha, Nebraska.

The album is the first since the departure of cellist Gretta Cohn [1] whose instrumentation was a fixture of the band's 2003 release The Ugly Organ. The album features significant five-piece horn arrangements courtesy of Nate Walcott.[2]

The lyrics of Happy Hollow form a concept album of sorts, revolving around a small town and its inhabitants, and dealing with concepts such as religious dogma and hypocrisy.

This album came with a download code to download the songs in mp3 format directly from Saddle Creek Records. Pre-orders of the album came with a miniature license plate that had a code to download a bonus track entitled "No News Is Bad News".

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Opening the Hymnal / Babies" – 2:32
  2. "Dorothy at Forty" – 3:02
  3. "Big Bang" – 3:56
  4. "Bad Sects" – 3:39
  5. "Flag and Family" – 2:56
  6. "Dorothy Dreams of Tornadoes" – 2:54
  7. "Retreat!" – 3:57
  8. "The Sunks" – 2:53
  9. "At Conception" – 2:57
  10. "So-So Gigolo" – 3:43
  11. "Bad Science" – 2:40
  12. "Into the Fold" – 4:16
  13. "Rise Up! Rise Up!" – 3:22
  14. "Hymns for the Heathen" – 2:39
  15. "No News Is Bad News" (pre-order bonus track) – 2:08

[edit] References

  1. ^ Cellist Gretta Cohn leaves Cursive
  2. ^ Cursive talks about upcoming full length

[edit] External links

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