-=- SHGZ -=- * Shoegaze * Indie * Post-Rock * Grunge * Dream Pop * Psych-Rock * Ethereal * ARTIST..: Curve ALBUM...: Cuckoo GENRE...: Electronic STYLE...: Industrial, Shoegaze , Indie Rock, Alternative Rock, Downtempo YEAR....: 2017 LABEL...: 3 Loop Music ENCODER.: LAME 3.98.4 -V0 TRACKS..: 21 BITRATE.: 247 kbps avg SOURCE..: CD QUALITY.: 44.1kHz/Stereo SIZE....: 184.03 MB URL..: http://www.curve.co.uk/ - TRACKLIST Disc 1 ------ 1 Missing Link 5:03 2 Crystal 4:04 3 Men Are From Mars, Women Are From 4:36 Venus 4 All Of One 4:22 5 Unreadable Communication 5:54 6 Turkey Crossing 4:55 7 Superblaster 4:03 8 Left Of Mother 4:13 9 Sweetest Pie 4:01 10 Cuckoo 4:56 Disc 2 ------ 1 Missing Link (Single Mix) 4:22 2 On The Wheel 6:04 3 Triumph 4:54 4 Superblaster 4:02 5 Low And Behold 4:20 6 Nothing Without Me 3:15 7 Missing Link (Screaming Bird Mix By 6:28 Trent Reznor & Flood) 8 Rising (Headspace Mix By The Future 9:24 Sound Of London) 9 Half The Time (Honey Tongue Mix By The 6:20 Drum Club) 10 Rising (Original Mix) 4:14 11 Half The Time (Original Mix) 4:05 Total Playtime: 103:35 Cuckoo [25th Anniversary Expanded Edition] !!! 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, DoppelgΣnger. 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 DoppelgΣnger 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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_%28album%29 * Following the success of Curve's debut full-length DoppelgΣnger, which nearly hit the U.K. Top 10 and spawned two hit singles (even garnering alternative radio and dance club play in the United States), the British group went in a darker, moodier direction with 1993 follow-up Cuckoo. Opener "Missing Link" is furious and aggressive, coming closer to Ministry-style industrial than the group's previous work, but other songs are slower, more atmospheric, and a bit more experimental. The songs still contain walls of searing guitar noise and thundering drums, but some of these tracks are a bit more spacious and reflective. The percolating synths on songs like "Crystal" and "Unreadable Communication" come a bit closer to the then-developing trance style, and the slower songs anticipate the direction Massive Attack (and several other trip-hop groups) would take during the course of the decade. On the gentle "Left of Mother," the group surprisingly incorporate acoustic guitars and strings, resulting in an earthly yet otherworldly combination which nevertheless sounds distinctly like Curve. "Superblaster" is a bit closer to the poppiness of DoppelgΣnger's highlights, and was appropriately released as a single, but given that the chorus includes the line "Have you got anything left to say before I shoot myself?," it doesn't come as much of a surprise that it wasn't a hit. Cuckoo is riskier than its predecessor, and not as catchy, but it rewards repeated listening, and still stands among the band's best work -- Halliday has even stated that she considers it to be Curve's best album. [After being out of print for the better part of two decades, Curve reissued their first two albums in 2017. In addition to sporting remastered sound quality, making the recordings sound fuller and revealing plenty of details in the music, a bonus disc is included, containing all of the B-sides and remixes from the album's singles, including the extremely rare Superblaster EP. This includes remixes by Trent Reznor & Flood, the Future Sound of London, and the Drum Club. In addition, the original versions of the songs remixed by FSOL and the Drum Club were physically released here for the first time.] -=- SHGZ -=- P.S. ** Thanks *** *** BCC FNT IPC SSR *** *** For Knowing Where The Music Is At *** --===-- ********************* * NuHS we miss you! * *********************