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The Good Life | |
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Background information | |
Origin | Omaha, Nebraska, United States |
Genres | Indie rock • indie pop • folk rock • emo • indietronica |
Years active | 2000–present |
Labels | Saddle Creek, Better Looking |
Members | Tim Kasher Stefanie Drootin Ryan Fox Roger Lewis |
Past members | Jiha Lee Landon Hedges Mike Heim |
The Good Life is an indie rock band on Saddle Creek Records.
Started as a solo project of Cursive's frontman Tim Kasher, The Good Life quickly grew to become its own established group. The original intent of The Good Life was to provide Tim Kasher with a vehicle to perform songs that did not fit stylistically in with his long-running band Cursive. Kasher fronts the group and plays the part of the singer/songwriter. The other members of the band include Stefanie Drootin, Ryan Fox, and Roger Lewis. [1]
The Good Life has its core in those four musicians, but besides Kasher can be a rotating cast of characters involving many from Saddle Creek Records. The band's name came from the original state slogan for Nebraska, the home of Kasher and Saddle Creek, before 2003, when the slogan was changed.
The Good Life released their fifth album, Everybody's Coming Down, on August 14, 2015.
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||
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US [2] | US Indie [3] | ||||
Novena on a Nocturn |
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Black Out |
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Album of the Year |
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Help Wanted Nights |
| 195 | 27 | ||
Everybody's Coming Down |
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"—" denotes releases that did not chart. |
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I tried to have the songs be less storytelling, and less narrative...since I was writing this fictionalized counterpart to this thing, I kind of liked the idea of writing songs to [exist] more as ideas that complement something else that was written. I tried to focus less on narrative and more on those big ideas.
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