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Come Clean (Curve album)

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Released
  
16 February 1998

Artist
  
Curve

Label
  
Universal Records

Length
  
57:10

Release date
  
16 February 1998

Genre
  
Electronica

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Recorded
  
July 1996 - September 1997

Come Clean (1998)
  
Open Day at the Hate Fest (2001)

Producers
  
Tim Simenon, Steve Osborne

Similar
  
Open Day at the Hate Fest, The New Adventures of Curve, Pubic Fruit, The Way of Curve, Doppelgänger

Curve chinese burn


Come Clean was the third studio album to be released by the British band Curve following their temporary split in 1994 and reformation in 1996, and their third all-new studio album in all.

Contents

Musically, the album marked a shift to a style more influenced by electronic and dance music than Curve's earlier records. Significantly, the commercial success of and critical acclaim for Come Clean (at least relative to the reception that the group's harsher and less accessible 1993 record Cuckoo had received) encouraged Curve to continue recording.

The working title for the album was, according to several interviews executed in 1996: Magic Music Medicine. In the fall of 1997 the bands American record company circulated a promo cassette titled Curve: Unmixed, Unmastered And Not Sequenced, which featured 12 of the songs from Come Clean. The tape had the tracks appearing in a different running order and some of them appeared in different versions.

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Music

Chris Ott of Pitchfork noted the album's "danceable drum loops" and "blurry, detached" vocals, and its influence from trip hop band Portishead and the "ascendant club-techno" sound of The Chemical Brothers. The album forgoes the "sexual intensity" and "icey shoegaze guitars" of the band's previous albums.

Track listing

All tracks by Curve

Retail version

  1. "Chinese Burn" - 4:50
  2. "Coming Up Roses" - 4:33
  3. "Something Familiar" - 4:07
  4. "Dog Bone" - 3:13
  5. "Alligators Getting Up" - 4:36
  6. "Dirty High" - 5:22
  7. "Killer Baby" - 3:54
  8. "Sweetback" - 4:31
  9. "Forgotten Sanity" - 4:33
  10. "Cotton Candy" - 5:32
  11. "Beyond Reach" - 4:55
  12. "Come Clean" - 2:16
  13. "Recovery" - 4:48

Advance tape (1997)

Curve: Unmixed, Unmastered And Not Sequenced

  1. "Dirty High [rough mix]" - 5:22
  2. "Forgotten Sanity" - 4:33
  3. "Killer Baby" - 3:54
  4. "Something Familiar" - 4:07
  5. "Chinese Burn [Flood mix]" - 4:28
  6. "Sweetback" - 4:31
  7. "Coming Up Roses [rough mix]" - 5:02
  8. "Alligators Getting Up" - 4:36
  9. "Dog Bone [rough mix]" - 3:20
  10. "Recovery" - 4:48
  11. "Cotton Candy" - 5:32
  12. "Beyond Reach" - 4:55

Personnel

  • Curve – Producer
  • Dean Garcia – Bass, Guitar, Drums, Programming, Engineer
  • Toni Halliday – Vocals, Engineer
  • Richard Harrington – Art Direction, Design
  • Sally Herbert – Violin
  • Ben Hillier – Engineer
  • Alan Moulder – Guitar
  • Darren Nash – Assistant Engineer
  • Steve Osborne – Arranger, Producer
  • Oskar Paul – Moog Synthesizer, Engineer
  • Tom Rixton – Assistant Engineer
  • Tim Simenon – Arranger, Producer
  • Jason Welch – Drums

    • Songs

    1Chinese Burn4:51
    2Coming Up Roses4:33
    3Something Familiar4:07

    References

    Come Clean (Curve album) Wikipedia
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