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.
DISC ONE
FOUR EPs
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 Fait Accompli (Single Version)
14 Arms Out
15 Sigh
DISC TWO
DOPPELGÄNGER +
1 Already Yours
2 Horror Head
3 Wish You Dead
4 Doppelgänger
5 Lillies Dying
6 Ice That Melts The Tips
7 Split Into Fractions
8 Think And Act
9 Fait Accompli
10 Sandpit
11 Falling Free
12 Mission From God
13 Today Is Not The Day
14 I Feel Love
DISC THREE
CUCKOO +
1 Missing Link
2 Crystal
3 Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
4 All Of One
5 Unreadable Communication
6 Turkey Crossing
7 Superblaster
8 Left Of Mother
9 Sweetest Pie
10 Cuckoo
11 On The Wheel
12 Triumph
13 Low And Behold
14 Nothing Without Me
15 Rising (Original Mix)
16 Half The Time (Original Mix)
DISC FOUR
LIVE/REMIXED
1 Coast Is Clear (Live/Manchester/91)
2 Die Like A Dog (Live/London/91)
3 Fait Accompli (Extended, Extended, Extended…)
4 Horror Head (Single Mix)
5 Falling Free (Aphex Twin Remix)
6 Missing Link (Single Mix)
7 Missing Link (Screaming Bird Mix)
8 Rising (Headspace Mix)
9 Half The Time (Honey Tongue Mix)
10 Superblaster (Single Mix)
