Omaha, Nebraska-based indie rock band Cursive performs Sunday, Sept. 7, at WOW Hall. They are supporting last year’s Devourer , the group’s eighth full-length studio album, and their first release since 2019. Together since the late ’90s, Cursive are perhaps most well-known for 2000’s Domestica , and the now seminal The Ugly Organ , released three years later. Cursive always hit harder than the folky strumming of former Saddle Creek Records labelmates Bright Eyes. And while neither Cursive nor Bright Eyes is exactly emo, both bands were responding to a similar millennial moment in their music, unpacking a sort of landlocked anxiety like bands more closely associated with the Midwest strain of the genre. Setting Cursive apart is unique instrumentation featuring string and horn bridg

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