Cuckoo Vinyl

Influential indie rockelectronic crossover outfit Curves second album was released by Anxious Records in September 1993. Coproduced by the band, Flood and Steve Osborne, it spawned two singlesEPs, Blackerthreetracker the lead track being the aggressive, hookladen Missing Link and the loping Superblaster, and although it wasnt as successful as their debut Doppelgnger in terms of chart performance, it was well received by the press, with particular praise for Toni Hallidays powerful vocals and thoughtful lyrics as well as the lush but abrasive backing that was aptly described as falling somewhere between Ministry and the Sugarcubes.In common with Doppelgnger, there are walls of searing guitar noise and pounding rhythms, but some of the tracks are softer and more reflective. As Paul Simpson put it on allmusic.com The synthesisers on Crystal and Unreadable Communication are close to the thendeveloping trance style, and the slower songs anticipate the direction Massive Attack and others would take during the course of the decade. Praise indeed.