Cursive and the Good Life frontman Tim Kasher has announced a new single, "Forever of the Living Dead," from his upcoming solo album Middling Age, out April 15 via 15 Passenger Records.
The track features a climactic sax solo from Jeff Rosenstock and guest appearances from Laura Jane Grace as well as Kasher's nine-year-old niece, and arrives alongside an Eric Stafford-directed video.
"It's closer to stream-of-consciousness than most writing I do, using absurdist imagery to express, well, my abstract thoughts on aging," said Kasher in a press release. "As stream-of-consciousness goes, I'm not entirely sure just what it's about at times. But it maintains a tone, and I'd like to think that tone reflects the album and the weight of our passage of time."
Speaking about the video, Kasher said that it "[leans] hard into the absurdist imagery by creating a narrative of two zombies seeking one another out. I love what [Stafford's] done, and now I picture the video when I play the song, which is how a great video should work, in my opinion.
In regards to the album, Kasher explained: "There's an audio theme throughout the record of a tense, buzzy cacophony which represents the anxiety that settles in as we age. The weight of the world, the worry and concern of how others receive me and how I'm receiving them. Social anxieties and plenty of mortal anxiety."
Watch the video for "Forever of the Living Dead" below, and revisit the album's tracklisting below that.
Middling Age:
1. Middling Age Anxiety Prologue
2. I Don't Think About You
3. What Are We Doing
4. The John Jouberts
5. 100 Ways to Paint a Bowl of Limes
6. On My Knees
7. You Don't Gotta Beat Yourself Up About It
8. Life Coach
9. Whisper Your Death Wish
10. Up and Cut Me Loose
11. Forever of the Living Dead
The track features a climactic sax solo from Jeff Rosenstock and guest appearances from Laura Jane Grace as well as Kasher's nine-year-old niece, and arrives alongside an Eric Stafford-directed video.
"It's closer to stream-of-consciousness than most writing I do, using absurdist imagery to express, well, my abstract thoughts on aging," said Kasher in a press release. "As stream-of-consciousness goes, I'm not entirely sure just what it's about at times. But it maintains a tone, and I'd like to think that tone reflects the album and the weight of our passage of time."
Speaking about the video, Kasher said that it "[leans] hard into the absurdist imagery by creating a narrative of two zombies seeking one another out. I love what [Stafford's] done, and now I picture the video when I play the song, which is how a great video should work, in my opinion.
In regards to the album, Kasher explained: "There's an audio theme throughout the record of a tense, buzzy cacophony which represents the anxiety that settles in as we age. The weight of the world, the worry and concern of how others receive me and how I'm receiving them. Social anxieties and plenty of mortal anxiety."
Watch the video for "Forever of the Living Dead" below, and revisit the album's tracklisting below that.
Middling Age:
1. Middling Age Anxiety Prologue
2. I Don't Think About You
3. What Are We Doing
4. The John Jouberts
5. 100 Ways to Paint a Bowl of Limes
6. On My Knees
7. You Don't Gotta Beat Yourself Up About It
8. Life Coach
9. Whisper Your Death Wish
10. Up and Cut Me Loose
11. Forever of the Living Dead
