Curve - Cuckoo (Expanded 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, Doppelganger. 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 Doppelganger 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 2CD 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.