Earlier this year Noisey featured the album ‘Twilight Language’ and caught up with the band about the record and it’s themes. If you missed this New York gem first go around, here’s your chance before 2013 slides away.
Noisey Interview and Stream of Family Curse’s ‘Twilight Language’
“I put em in the same beer league with Protomartyrs of the world – they share the never-common-enough combination of MES spittle and the riff meticulous, though Family Curse makes sure to balance bitter litanies with desperate howling, slight crooning, Devo droning, Darby death knells. A bit of Rick Hell on “NY NY NY”, which is the jam among jellies here… anti-NYC ballads will never not be in the top tier of punk subject matter. The chorus of “Memory Sickness” sung along with the teetering guitar leads is tops. The secrets are here, but there’s so much on the surface. Every song is rife with hooks, but there’s an ambitious level of tricks and complications that are there for the deep listener. Bitter, complex and creative.”
– Terminal Boredom
“Edgy post-punk with sturdy bass, a whomping rhythm and fluid guitar lines….an invitingly jarring approach…challenging and unsettling…”
– Suburban Voice
