DESCRIPTION
Formed by two relative veterans of the musical landscape in London in 1990, Curve blazed a trail with a fresh new sound during the first few years of that decade, fusing heavy electronics with layered guitars and sweetly dark vocals. Formed by two relative veterans of the musical landscape in London in 1990, Curve blazed a trail with a fresh new sound during the first few years of that decade, fusing heavy electronics with layered guitars and sweetly dark vocals.
The British music press was instantly enamoured, and the band went on to score a succession of critically acclaimed underground hits through a series of classic EPs and two futuristic albums.
Released on Dave Stewart’s (Eurythmics) Anxious imprint, these records chart the course of a band who burned brightly but briefly in their original incarnation, taking their cues from the scene around them and creating a new sound which many would mimic (most notably, Butch Vig’s Garbage). But this is the original flavour. The real
deal. Original and daring. Homespun yet worldly.
Featuring the classic early EPs and those two seminal long players, ‘Unreadable Communication’ demands a re-examination of a band who set the standards of their own time and place, and who continue to be referenced and appreciated by shoegazers, industrialists and ethereal pop kids across the world.

4CD SET COMPRISING CURVE’S ENTIRE ANXIOUS RECORDINGS OUTPUT.

FEATURING THE CLASSIC ALBUMS ‘DOPPLEGÄNGER’ AND ‘CUCKOO’ PLUS SINGLES, BSIDES, REMIXES AND LIVE RECORDINGS.

PRODUCED WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM DEAN GARCIA AND TONI HALLIDAY.

SLEEVENOTES FROM LOIS WILSON. CD1: FOUR EPs
Ten Little Girls
I Speak Your Every Word
Blindfold
No Escape From Heaven
Coast Is Clear
The Colour Hurts
Frozen
Zoo
Clipped
Die Like A Dog
Galaxy
Cherry
Fait Accompli (Single Version)
Arms Out
Sigh
CD2: DOPPELGÄNGER
Already Yours
Horror Head
Wish You Dead
Doppelgänger
Lillies Dying
Ice That Melts The Tips
Split Into Fractions
Think And Act
Fait Accompli
Sandpit
Falling Free
Mission From God
Today Is Not The Day
I Feel Love
CD3: CUCKOO
Missing Link
Crystal
Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
All Of One
Unreadable Communication
Turkey Crossing
Superblaster
Left Of Mother
Sweetest Pie
Cuckoo
On The Wheel
Triumph
Low And Behold
Nothing Without Me
Rising (Original Mix)
Half The Time (Original Mix)
CD4: LIVE/REMIXED
Coast Is Clear (Live/Manchester/91)
Die Like A Dog (Live/London/91)
Fait Accompli (Extended, Extended, Extended...)
Horror Head (Single Mix)
Falling Free (Aphex Twin Remix)
Missing Link (Single Mix)
Missing Link (Screaming Bird Mix)
Rising (Headspace Mix)
Half The Time (Honey Tongue Mix)
Superblaster (Single Mix)

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