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When Pitchfork spoke with Cursive frontman Tim Kasher earlier this year, we learned of a few track titles ("Hymns for the Heathen", "Bad Sects", and "Bad Science") that would make their way onto his band's upcoming record, Happy Hollow, due August 22 on Saddle Creek. Since then, Cursive have finalized the now 14-song tracklist, tacking on tunes with names like "So-So Gigolo", "Dorothy Dreams of Tornadoes", and "Retreat!!".

Art is hard:

01 Opening the Hymnal/Babies
02 Dorothy at Forty
03 Big Bang
04 Bad Sects
05 Flag and Family
06 Dorothy Dreams of Tornadoes
07 Retreat!!
08 The Sunks
09 At Conception
10 So-So Gigolo
11 Bad Science
12 Into the Fold
13 Rise Up! Rise Up!
14 Hymns for the Heathen

As previously reported, the Mike Mogis-produced Happy Hollow marks Cursive's first record since cellist Gretta Cohn left the band last year. It features zero strings, but fear not-- the band has embraced brass, thanks to Nick Wolcott's five-piece horn arrangements. "The more that everyone was excited for the horn stuff, the more that it just seemed like a honking kind of record-- more to do with those abrupt, punchy sounds and less of what could be a smooth record with strings," Kasher commented in the aforementioned interview.

Cursive, as you know, have scheduled a short string of July performances to get people pumped for Happy Hollow. In August, they'll make a Lollapalooza appearance, and then it's off to Europe for a "couple of weeks of shows". Only one date has been revealed at this point.

The storms of mid-to-late summer:

07-05 Champaign, IL - Canopy Club
07-06 Lansing, MI - Temple Club
07-07 Cleveland Heights, OH - Grog Shop
07-08 Pittsburgh, PA - Mr. Smalls
07-10 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
07-11 Norfolk, VA - NorVA
07-13 Newport, KY - Southgate House
07-14 Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews
08-04 Chicago, IL - Grant Park (Lollapalooza)
08-18 Salzburg, Austria - FM4 Frequency Festival

* Pitchfork Review: Cursive: The Difference Between Houses and Homes
* Pitchfork News: Cursive Announce U.S., Euro Dates
* Saddle Creek: http://www.saddle-creek.com