Cat: MOVLP 3477C. Rel: 2 Oct 23
Indie/Alternative
Side 1 - Track 1. Already Yours |
Side 1 - Track 2. Horror Head |
Side 1 - Track 3. Wish You Dead |
Side 1 - Track 4. Doppelganger |
Side 1 - Track 5. Lillies Dying |
Side 2 - Track 1. Ice That Melts The Tips |
Side 2 - Track 2. Split Into Fractions |
Side 2 - Track 3. Think & Act |
Side 2 - Track 4. Fait Accompli |
Side 2 - Track 5. Sandpit |
Curve are best known among music lovers as one of the few English 90s bands to span the cross-section of industrial dance music and shoegaze and to bring that sound to the alt-mainstream. Their debut studio album, Doppelganger, was the splash album that defined this sound; a maximal, euphoric statement in walls of crunching chords-n'-drums from Dean Garcia and a set of barely-skating-the-mix vocals from Toni Halliday. Purely noisy, cathartic and determined in its slice of style, the likes of 'Lillies Dying', 'Split Into Fractions', and 'Ice That Melts The Tips' all evoke sonic seances of the wildest kind, as if each calling out to some extradimensional, omniscient beast.