Curve: C or D?

hah I was at that show at the Palace. What I remember most is how horrible the opening act was and how excited I was to briefly hang out with the band (+ Medicine) outside after the show

how horrible the opening act was

Good ol' Engines of Aggression. *dies*

Yay, Doppelganger is finally on Spodify. (I suppose I should probably check if it's on iTunes yet because I have already owned it on far too many formats.)

I had forgotten what a *nasty* sounding record it is. It's filled with a kind of gnawing self loathing and bits of strangled noise and so bloody ugly and yet still somehow beautiful.

Not sure if it's the production or the mastering but I always found doppelgänger a bit thin and lifeless. A remaster could be interesting

Dunno, the production sounds more *murky* than thin or lifeless. Like, it's so bloody dense and thick that it's hard to pick out any elements, but that's kind of the point of shoegaze wall of sound.

Any thoughts on SPC ECO, Dean Garcia's new thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc-F5VTBJyA

They're kind of an AC-30 band which makes me automatially predisposed not to like them, but I should give them a chance, I suppose.

Oh wait, is that Debbie Smith on guitar? I take it back, I automatically love anything she's involved with.

(Though I still kind of hide from her when I see her on the train.)

Any thoughts on SPC ECO - linked track is a dead ringer for gaze-era Curve, which would interest me more if half of my record collection didn't already consist of such things. Nice to see that Debbie Smith back in action, though!

I could just be making it up, but I think I read somewhere that the girl singing for SPC ECO is actually Dean's own niece.

daughter

i love spc eco, the album is really good but the EPs that have come out since are even better

Not sure if it's the production or the mastering but I always found doppelgänger a bit thin and lifeless. A remaster could be interesting

Dunno... Listening here on a great audio system, it sounds freaking amazing. I put "Fait Accompli" pretty high up on my ballot in the ILX poll and my comment for it was:

"Somehow I picture Halliday, Garcia, Moulder, & Flood cackling in the studio as they try to see just how menacing they could make this song. "I've come to mess with your head" indeed."

All the EPs and the later self-released albums are available on Bandcamp now: http://curve.bandcamp.com/

Pubic Fruit still rules

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Just noticed how awesome and weird the wayward synth bass on Horror Head is

"Come Clean:" underrated?

Curve is still the best.

i heard 'fait accompli' randomly in the gym once

It looks like there was mention of them here six years ago, but I just discovered Dean's band SPC ECO with his daughter on vocals when their new album came out this year. Nice stuff.

Yeah they've turned into a pretty good act, and they were always good from the start.

Hold up, have they really released basically an album and EP a year for the past several years?

So, reissues of the two first albums coming out this summer. Already have all of the bonus material but Doppelgänger could do with a remaster so I'll probably get these.

Wow, great news.

Track details here. Same here, re: owning it all already (aside from the original versions of "Rising" and "Half the Time", on the _Cuckoo_ 2 cd), but not to bad a price to gather those singles w/ the albums. Can't remember if "I Feel Love" was on _The Way of Curve_ - I got it on an NME covers comp. This quote in the comments made me laugh: That said, if they’ve done a decent remaster of Doppelgänger, I might buy it just to hear stuff like Ice That Melts The Tips (“sounds as though three guitars are beating the crap out of a fourth” said Q).

Will have to check the Rare/Unreleased Bandcamp list against my discs and see what I'm missing. Seeing the main page, their output and art aesthetic is impressive.

Can't remember if "I Feel Love" was on _The Way of Curve_ - I got it on an NME covers comp

just checked.
nope its not.
i will probably get both of these as the mastering on the original cds is pretty shrill and tinny.
so, to have them all dusted up and at the same levels will be nice.

I have all the singles so the only tracks I'm missing are I Feel Love and those live and original versions of things. Doppelganger CD is really flat sounding though so might be worth getting if they've done something to fix it.

It's totally on The Way of Curve. Disc 2, track 13.

It's totally on The Way of Curve. Disc 2, track 13.

ahh .. i checked the wrong album !
doh.

https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/07/25/curve-dean-garcia-spc-eco-interview/

Thank ya for sharing that!

Has anyone listened to the pre-Curve stuff like State of Play from '86, Toni Halliday's solo album from '89, or the Uncles single from '84? Any good?

I've listened to the '89 solo album and I want to like it more than I do but can't get past the dated '80s production

lol I just read this whole thread and I've mentioned that I saw Scylla live 3 times.

Did you know I saw Scylla live in 1995?

The Scylla demos are great. ("Helen's Face" was on the "Showgirls" soundtrack, fwiw.) The link for the demos is dead, but they must be out there somewhere.

Whoops, didn't catch the "pre-Curve" specification.

Curve has been perfect for West coast road trip! I noticed once on another thread how Robert Plant's Now & Zen features (iirc) both Toni and Kirsty MacColl on backing vox.

It's never enough to swallow those pills
Now I'm sick, and always will be.

Bonus points : Today I found Public Fruit and Come Clean in a local charity shop.

Pubic Fruit rules. Come Clean hurts my ears sometimes, but I've come around to it!

just had one of my tweeters fixed due to excess a few weeks ago.
so, probably not the best time to rediscover how much i love curve.

I was just blasting "Frozen" last week

DJP : if you haven't checked them out, then the freebie SPC ECO remixes/art of pop remixes compilations are way better than i ever expected them to be.

so, today i picked up some eurythmics cds from a local charity shop.
i never expected to see deans name in the credits.

Curve were on Dave Stewart's label!

more connections here: famous bands (or significant portions thereof) who backed up a solo artist or were absorbed into an existing band for a single album: the thread

ooh yeah, of course ..
duhh ...