Pubic Fruit

Curve | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 17, 1992)
• Original Release Date: November 17, 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Virgin Records Us
• ASIN: B000008ERJ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #62,632 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #57 in Music > Alternative Rock > Indie & Lo-Fi > Shoegazing
  • #100 in Music > Alternative Rock > British Alternative > General

Track Listings

1. Ten Little Girls

2. I Speak Your Every Word

3. Blindfold

4. No Escape from Heaven

5. Coast Is Clear

6. The Colour Hurts

7. Frozen

8. Zoo

9. Clipped

10. Die Like a Dog

11. Galaxy

12. Cherry

13. Faît Accompli [Extended Version]

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Euphoria, ecstasy, and out of dimension experience., August 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Pubic Fruit (Audio CD)

Toni Halliday's voice hypnotizes and softly penetrates you like a dream. The melodic guitar, divine rhythm, soothing bass, all blends in eachother beautifully, unknowingly, comparable to Debussy. This album could make you headbang, strip, and pray all at the same time.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A showcase of Curve's best work, June 7, 2002

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Allen Kung (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pubic Fruit (Audio CD)

Back in the era of "shoegazing" (late 80's, early 90's), when Brit bands such as My Bloody Valentine and Ride ruled the alternative landscape, there was another band that kicked serious... Curve. Fronted by Toni Haliday, Curve showcased her dreamy, yet occasionally menacing vocal style. She was the sort of starlet who could carry the band - kind of a precursor to Shirley Manson, the face behind Garbage. But the early iterations of Curve were less about the vocals, and more about the smorgasbord of sounds permeating through each track. Swirling, howling guitars intersect with the drum machines and traces of electronica to create sounds that cannot be classified as being dance music or mood music or whatever. Ten Little Girls, Blindfold, Frozen, and Clipped are the stellar tracks.

Public Fruit is a collection of Curve's first 3 EPs. Public Fruit stands out, along side My Bloody Valentine's Loveless and Isn't Anything, as being a seminal CD from a long-gone era.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The music will speak for itself, April 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Pubic Fruit (Audio CD)

Very highly comparable to the alternative directions of Lush and the now faded Lulabox, this group holds its own and this great compilation is a testament to that. A collection of the band's EP singles, Pubic Fruit engages you with every song one right after the other. Forget about buying an album because there's only one song on it that you want- you will come out feeling you bought this album for every song that's on it, and worth every single penny at that. It's that good. "Pubic Fruit" scores much higher than their earlier efforts in "Doppleganger" as well as the follow up "Cuckoo", and so it is amazing that a random compilation such as this comes out sounding amazingly focused and rich with substance at the same time. Six stars out of five.