Doppelgänger
September 1, 2017

Description
In 1991, Curve arrived on the scene with a series of increasingly successful EPs via Dave Stewart’s Anxious label.

A year later they released their debut album, Doppelgänger. A monster and stately record, it was their sonic manifesto. Self-produced with Flood, and mixed by emergent super engineer and unofficial sixth CURVE member Alan Moulder (Ride, U2, My Bloody Valentine, Marilyn Manson, Smashing Pumpkins, Yeah Yeah Yeahs), its ability to sandblast your nerve endings for breakfast is matched only by its tendency to inebriate the listener with its aromatic charm.

The album features two singles, ‘Fait Accompli’ and ‘Horror Head’ both of which hit the Top 40 in 1992.

Now, this 2CD edition of the album is expanded and packed with the singles and the 3 EPs (all remastered from the original tapes) plus four rare tracks including the Aphex Twin remix of ‘Falling Free’, as compiled by Dean Garcia and Toni Halliday.

Tracklist
[CD1: Original Album and The Singles]
Original Album:
1. Already Yours
2. Horror Head
3. Wish You Dead
4. Doppelgänger
5. Lillies Dying
6. Ice That Melts The Tips
7. Split Into Fractions
8. Think And Act
9. Faît Accompli
10. Sandpit
The Singles:
11. Fait Accompli (Single Version)
12. Arms Out
13. Sigh
14. Fait Accompli (Extendedextendedextended)
15. Horror Head (Single Remix)
16. Falling Free
17. Mission From God
18. Today Is Not The Day

[CD2: The EPs and Rarities]
Blindfold EP:
1. Ten Little Girls
2. I Speak Your Every Word
3. Blindfold
4. No Escape From Heaven
Frozen EP:
5. Coast Is Clear
6. The Colour Hurts
7. Frozen
8. Zoo
Cherry EP:
9. Clipped
10. Die Like A Dog
11. Galaxy
12. Cherry
Rarities:
13. Falling Free (Aphex Twin Remix)
14. Coast Is Clear (Live Manchester ‘91)
15. Die Like A Dog (Live London ’91)
16. I Feel Love

Amazon USA
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072ZF3TPS/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B072ZF3TPS/?tag=imwan-21

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Cuckoo
August 25, 2017

Description
Described, variously, as “dusky and mysterious, cosmetic and up-for-it”, “Industrial techno disco,” and “like a Japanese express train”, Curve’s second album Cuckoo is more sophisticated, more seductive, less serrated, even squelchy in places than their debut, Doppelganger. A mature, fluent, and literary album, it hit the Top 30 on release in 1993.

Cuckoo takes the listener from the established hallmarks and runs with them – over the horizon – to many new and rich areas of pop melodrama. Delicate and gorgeous moments sit easily with their simultaneously cool and incendiary sound. A more personal album, it is nonetheless metallic, unforgiving, LOUD, clear.

As with Doppelganger the album was produced by the band with Flood and Steve Osborne, and it was mixed by Alan Moulder.

It is home to the lead tracks from singles ‘Blackerthreetracker’ EP and ‘Superblaster’ and is regarded by the band as their best piece of work.

This expanded 2CD edition includes the album plus the remixes and two previously unreleased tracks, the original versions of ‘Rising’ and ‘Half The Time’, which have only previously been available in their remixed form.

Compiled by Dean Garcia and Toni Halliday.

Tracklist
[CD1: Original Album]
1. Missing Link
2. Crystal
3. Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
4. All Of One
5. Unreadable Communication
6. Turkey Crossing
7. Superblaster
8. Left Of Mother
9. Sweetest Pie
10. Cuckoo

[CD2: The Singles and Rarities]
Blackerthreetracker Single:
1. Missing Link (Single Version)
2. On The Wheel
3. Triumph
Superblaster Single:
4. Superblaster (Remix)
5. Low And Behold
6. Nothing Without Me
Remixes:
7. Missing Link (Screaming Bird Mix)
8. Rising (Headspace Mix)
9. Half The Time (Honey Tongue Mix)
Rarities:
10. Rising (Original Version)
11. Half The Time (Original Version))

Amazon USA
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072ZG1JJY/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B072ZG1JJY/?tag=imwan-21

Doppleganger is a monster of an album! This deluxe edition looks great with the single versions and remixes and all of the pre-album EPs collected in one place. I just spent good money on a rare set that compiles a lot of the rarities, I wish I had known this was coming.

https://www.discogs.com/Curve-The-Way-O ... ster/32711

Bump: Doppelganger has now been pushed back a week to September 1st; Cuckoo remains on schedule for this coming Friday, August 25th.