New Cursive Track is Unsettling in All the Right Ways

The day of judgment approaches, and today we got a punchy little taste of the apocalypse.

Omaha masters of torture Cursive, who'll release new album "Mama, I'm Swollen" on March 10, just leaked new track "I Couldn't Love You" to, of all places, Entertainment Weekly, one of the least credible magazines when it comes to good music.

But alas, the tune's out there for us cretins to enjoy. And enjoy we shall. "I Couldn't Love You" sees Cursive back in the sloppy-brilliance of pre-Domestica releases, where melody wasn't the focus, but rather power, passion and drunken, violent love rants. The recording seems purposefully murky, too - gone is the precision and sharpness of Happy Hollow. No complaints here, though that album did kill pretty substantially.

So, enough with the banter - I know what you want. The link to the tune is right.... here.

Listen once. Then another time. I swear it gets better and better.

And the tune is an indicator that Swollen could be Ugly Organ good. At least Tim Kasher said so - in more than one show, including the Columbus show last month reviewed below, he's said that the new songs are "Fucking brilliant." Cocky, sure. But with "I Couldn't Love You" he doesn't seem too crazy.