Sold Date: November 29, 2014
Start Date: November 21, 2014
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Record is brand new and has never been played.
The Ugly Organ made landfall on March 4, 2003, the same day as Evanescence’s Fallen and roughly two weeks before the start of the Iraq War. The darkest days of the Bush Era were settling in like a dense fog over the entire country, and the outlook was bleak. That made The Ugly Organ especially potent, its gloomy inward focus a natural re ection of the era. The press accolades came quickly, from the mainstream (Rolling Stone called it “a brilliant leap forward,” and Entertainment Weekly said it “raised the Saddle Creek bar”) to the niche (The A.V. Club called it “a potent piece of rock art,” Alternative Press gave it a perfect score).

With The Ugly Organ, Cursive made a landmark album for itself and Saddle Creek. It was the label’s 51st release  and the second in what my colleague Marc Hawthorne called “Saddle Creek’s holy trinity” in his liner notes for  The Faint’s Danse Macabre reissue: Danse Macabre, The Ugly Organ, and Bright Eyes’ I’m Wide Awake, It’s  Morning. (I’d argue more for LIFTED or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground on that count, but I’ll  save that for the next time I see Marc.)
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