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

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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