Exclusive Stream: Cursive's Schizoid Concept Album 'I Am Gemini'

Cursive, ‘Gemini’

Saddle Creek

I Am Gemini, the seventh album by Omaha, Nebraska rockers Cursive, is a song cycle that tells the story of Cassius and Pollock, twin brothers who had been separated at birth. Over the course of 13 dense, dynamic post-punk tunes, the group question whether one twin is good and the other is evil, or if they really are actually two halves of a whole. The record will hit stores on February 21st, but you can preview the album in its entirety now.

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Song Stories

“Push It”

Salt-N-Pepa | 1987

Originating as a B side to their cover of the Stax classic “Tramp,” Cheryl “Salt” James, Sandi “Pepa” Denton and Dee Dee “DJ Spinderella” Roper came up with the goods on this career-making, Grammy-nominated platinum single about working it on the dancefloor. “Push It” has been sampled and spliced to death since it debuted in 1987, yet the original track is as fresh and fly as when SNP — among the few original women of hip-hop — debuted it. “Most men will never believe ‘Push It’ was never about sex,” said James. “And that’s why the record went to Number One,” said Denton. “Everybody thought it was about sex.”

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