Editing Cursive (band) (section)

=== Reformation: ''Domestica'' and ''Burst and Bloom'' (1999–2002) ===
A little over a year later, in the summer of 1999, the band re-formed when Kasher got divorced and returned to Omaha. With Pedersen gone to law school, [[Ted Stevens (musician)|Ted Stevens]] (formerly of [[Lullaby for the Working Class]]) joined the band on guitar and vocals. Within a year Cursive recorded and released their third full-length album, ''[[Cursive's Domestica|Domestica]]'', in 2000. A concept album about the dissolution of a marriage, ''Domestica'' gained Cursive critical success for the first time.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Cursive – Burst And Bloom|url = https://www.punknews.org/review/361/cursive-burst-and-bloom|website = www.punknews.org| date=14 July 2001 |access-date = 2015-12-11}}</ref> While not a straightforward autobiographical account of his marriage, Kasher has acknowledged that it heavily influenced the album, though some of the relationship dynamics – such as infidelity – were not autobiographical.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Lazyeye Interview: Cursive – Domestica|url = http://www.timmcmahan.com/cursive2.htm|website = www.timmcmahan.com|access-date = 2015-12-11}}</ref> Reviewing ''Domestica'', ''[[Pitchfork Media|Pitchfork]]''<nowiki/>'s Taylor Clark gave the album an 8.0/10.0, calling Tim Kasher's style as "the perfect inflection and expression from the far-from-perfect vocal chords, the brains evident behind the guitar brawn" and that the band's sound had evolved since ''The Storms of Early Summer'', saying that Cursive "retained their razor edge, creating pulsing, rapidly evolving guitar-based music, yet they're now fueled and guided by the meaning behind the music".<ref>{{Cite web|title = Cursive: Cursive's Domestica|url = http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/1700-cursives-domestica/|website = Pitchfork|access-date = 2015-12-11|language = en-US}}</ref>

Cursive added [[Gretta Cohn]] as a cellist in 2001, as Kasher felt the addition would help the band evolve its sound. They recorded and released 2001's ''[[Burst and Bloom]]'' EP on Saddle Creek Records, and split an album with Japanese band [[Eastern Youth]] in 2002 called ''[[8 Teeth to Eat You]]'' on [[Better Looking Records]]. ''Burst and Bloom''<nowiki/>'s lead-off track, "Sink to the Beat", is a lyrically [[Meta (prefix)|meta]]-concept song about the process of recording the EP itself and the effect it has on the music and the listener.<ref>{{Cite web|title = In Music We Trust – Cursive: Burst and Bloom|url = http://www.inmusicwetrust.com/articles/39r15.html|website = www.inmusicwetrust.com|access-date = 2015-12-11}}</ref> Cursive toured extensively throughout 2001 and 2002, to the point of exhaustion and Kasher suffering a [[Pneumothorax|collapsed lung]]. The band had to cancel the rest of the tour and returned to writing new material.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Album Review: Cursive – The Ugly Organ [Reissue]|url = https://consequence.net/2014/11/album-review-cursive-the-ugly-organ-reissue/|website = Consequence of Sound|date = 20 November 2014|access-date = 2015-12-11|language = en-US}}</ref>