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Already yours, July 26, 2002
This review is from: Doppleganger (Audio CD)
I adore Curve. Last year I rediscovered this excellent band with their latest album "Gift". That album is still in heavy rotation in my cd player. I first discovered Curve with "Cuckoo" back in the early '90s when I was still in high school. After rediscovering this lovely British rock group, I have made it a point to buy their albums before "Cuckoo". My latest Curve cd is "Doppelganger". I was quite taken by how different the sound on "Doppelganger" is to "Gift". The band has more of a shoegazer sound on this album while on "Gift", the band mixes techno, rock and elements of industrial music together. Toni Halliday is definitely one of my favorite rock goddesses of all time. I can hear her influence in Garbage's lead vocalist Shirley Manson. Both women have a sultry voice that melds well with the type of music they put out. The album itself could use a remastering for all intensive purposes but overall the songs themselves are some of the strongest material Curve has ever done. I absolutely adore "Horror Head" and "Wish You Dead" especially. You can definitely hear a Depeche Mode influence on this album thanks in part of Flood as well as in the mixing by Alan Moulder. You can certainly hear the DM comparison in "Wish You Dead" and "Doppelganger". "Doppelganger" definitely confirms to me that Curve ought to be ranked as one of my personal favorite bands, alongside VNV Nation and KMFDM. All three bands have yet to put out an album that I do not like.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Sleeper Album From A Killer Band, July 25, 2002
This review is from: Doppleganger (Audio CD)
Most people don't know of Curve, and that is a shame. Curve had generated some of the most interesting alternative music of the 90's. They came out when Nirvana hit it big, and the grunge scene was hot. Male rock singers were in. Females were not. So here comes Curve. Halliday is one of the "best" female vocalists ever. "Doppelganger" is one of the best albums I have had the luck of discovering. Every song rocks with heavy guitars and bass lines. Halliday's voice is so sensual and alluring, that you would think these sounds wouldn't mesh well. Well.. they do. And to top that off, the beats are not standard 4/4 rock music, they're dance oriented techno/shuffle beats. Garbage (another of my favorite bands) without a doubt, knew of Curve. However, while Garbage is more a pop-polished band, Curve feels more raw/goth and sensual. Stand out songs are "Wish You Dead", "Fait Accompli" and "Doppelganger".
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Dreamy Distortion, April 2, 2003
This review is from: Doppleganger (Audio CD)
Curve were so ahead of the Curve, one can't but wonder "what happened". Obviously this recording spawned the likes of (and I LIKE) Garbage, but this is a far superior product to most current music (Garbage incl). Toni's voice has that nonchalant druggy air which when mixed with the at times assault of distorted guitar stands in a class of its own. Wish you Dead and Fait Accompli are stand outs, but the entire CD is really a classic.
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