“Don’t want to live in the now / don’t want to know what I know,” announces a wailing Tim Kasher on “In the Now,” the opening track of Mama, I’m Swollen, Cursive’s seventh full-length studio album.
After another three-year break, Cursive return with a straight shot of melodramatic misery and despair, leavening the shouty intensity with orchestration. During a tour in 2007, original drummer Clint ...