Come Clean

Curve | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 10, 1998)
• Original Release Date: March 10, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Umvd Labels
• ASIN: B000006C05
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #87,856 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #74 in Music > Alternative Rock > Indie & Lo-Fi > Shoegazing

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Curve returns with a more synthesized, but somehow darker id, June 10, 1998

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[e-mail] (Ithaca, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Come Clean (Audio CD)

Curve broke onto the English music scene some years ago with a sound that few had heard anything like before. Due to little airplay in the states, the band's ethereal hard dreampop never really hit the mainstream...thank god. Their crushing cd's from the early 90's had more guitar and a more bandlike quality, but Come Clean continues to show us an even darker side of Toni Halliday and Dean Garcia. This is music you want as you drive through an urban metropolis at the turn of the millenium, the cyberculture and streetlights taking you in and out of sight.

This album is a bit less concerned with all the tracks sounding similar. Some are downright LOUD with sampled guitar and looped drums crushing you with Ms. Halliday's screeches. But then there are tamer tracks that are lurking in the shadows like "Beyond Reach". This track employs a beautiful selection of liquid sounds woven into a tapestry of soft percussion that comes and goes, then leaps into a hard-hop agression that is controlled but...very, very restless.

This is a good adjective to describe the band that has influenced groups like Garbage and Catherine Wheel. There is always a sense that the players are trying to express a deep personal frustration (usuallly about a complicated relationship between lovers) but never quite succeeds at bringing you the darkness or pain....and that's alright. Out of all the music that attempts to guide you through the darkest of places at the millenium's end, Curve nicely cradles you in its controlled, restless sonics of the night.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars stop comparing curve to garbage, December 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Come Clean (Audio CD)

curve has been around for years before garbage ever riffed off of them, and Come Clean shows them at their absolute best. This was one of the best albums of 1998 and the unfair comaprisons to bands that were influenced by Curve is simply annoying.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Heavy stuff!, May 19, 1999

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Ilker Yucel ([e-mail]) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Come Clean (Audio CD)

The EP release of "Chinese Burn" got me into this band (other than the articles I read that caught my interest). This album's one flaw is that "Robbing Charity" from the EP is not on here. But that hardly hurts the album. The entire album pulsates with driving electronic beats and heavy vocals. Toni Halliday's voice is as haunting as it is beautiful and paired with Dean's songwriting and technical ability makes for some great music. "Chinese Burn" is still my favorite, but others like "Recovery" and "Dog Bone" only confirm that Curve can kick ass with the best of them. They somehow turn noise into music through their seamless manipulation of techno, rock, and Toni's surreal vocals and lyrics. I still have to check out "Cuckoo" and "Doppellganger," but from what I hear on this album, Curve is one of the best bands out there.