Band: Cursive
Album: The Ugly Organ
Best song: “Driftwood: A Fairy Tale” is, by far, the best song on the record, though “The Recluse” is great and “Some Red-Handed Sleight of Hand” is Tim Kasher at his most intense.
Worst song: “Staying Alive” isn’t good.

There’s a nice parallel between Cursive’s The Ugly Organ and Pedro the Lion’s Winners Never Quit. Both deal in the notion of someone dealing with tempation, fame and nefarious hangers on. In the case of the PTL record, it’s in politics, while the The Ugly Organ is something of an offshoot of the “rock singer becomes too much for himself” subgenre of concept albums (The Wall comes to mind).
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