The Good Life - Help Wanted Nights

Saddle Creek

Tim Kasher has become an indie rock renaissance man through the many creative hats he's worn in the last few years. Most famously, his band Cursive has achieved the kind of indie rock success most bands never seem to gain yet will devote years in a van trying to. Since 2000, Kasher has had an outlet for his softer and more introspective material through his band The Good Life. Help Wanted Nights finds the band exploring a far more country tinged sonic terrain than previous efforts. A strong Wilco influence is felt throughout the songs.

A melancholy mood threads the album together with songs like "Rest Your Head" bringing Neil Young's more somber moments. The jumpy rhythms of "Keely Aimee" come at the perfect moment in the tracklisting lifting your attention just when things seem to be getting too sleepy. This is the kind of album to put on the stereo on a Sunday morning and just kick back.

Carlos Ramirez