Curve - Cuckoo 2xCD (Expanded)
- Missing Link
- Crystal
- Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
- All of One
- Unreadable Communication
- Turkey Crossing
- Superblaster
- Left of Mother
- Sweetest Pie
- Cuckoo
- Format
- Vinyl LP
- Genre
- Rock
- Catalog No.
- 19802954731
- Tracks
- 10
Influential indie rock/electronic crossover outfit Curve's second album was released by Anxious Records in September 1993. Co-produced by the band, Flood and Steve Osborne, it spawned two singles/EPs, 'Blackerthreetracker' (the lead track being the aggressive, hook-laden 'Missing Link') and the loping 'Superblaster', and although it wasn't as successful as their debut 'Doppelgänger' in terms of chart performance, it was well received by the press, with particular praise for Toni Halliday's powerful vocals and thoughtful lyrics as well as the lush but abrasive backing that was aptly described as falling somewhere between Ministry and the Sugarcubes. In common with 'Doppelgänger', there are walls of searing guitar noise and pounding rhythms, but some of the tracks are softer and more reflective.
- Missing Link
- Crystal
- Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
- All of One
- Unreadable Communication
- Turkey Crossing
- Superblaster
- Left of Mother
- Sweetest Pie
- Cuckoo
- Missing Link (Single Version)
- On the Wheel
- Triumph
- Superblaster (Remix)
- Low and Behold
- Nothing Without Me
- Missing Link (Screaming Bird Mix)
- Rising (Headspace Mix)
- Half the Time (Honey Tongue Mix)
- Rising (Original Version)
- Half the Time (Original Version)
- Format
- CD
- Genre
- Rock
- Discs
- 2
- Tracks
- 21
- Edition
- Expanded
Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition. 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 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.
