Come Clean (Curve album)


Come Clean was the third studio album to be released by the British band Curve following their temporary split in 1994 and reformation in 1996, and their third all-new studio album in all.
Musically, the album marked a shift to a style more influenced by electronic and dance music than Curve's earlier records. Significantly, the commercial success of and critical acclaim for Come Clean encouraged Curve to continue recording.
The working title for the album was, according to several interviews executed in 1996: Magic Music Medicine. In the fall of 1997 the bands American record company circulated a promo cassette titled Curve: Unmixed, Unmastered And Not Sequenced, which featured 12 of the songs from Come Clean. The tape had the tracks appearing in a different running order and some of them appeared in different versions.

Music

Chris Ott of Pitchfork noted the album's "danceable drum loops" and "blurry, detached" vocals, and its influence from trip hop band Portishead and the "ascendant club-techno" sound of The Chemical Brothers. The album forgoes the "sexual intensity" and "icey shoegaze guitars" of the band's previous albums.

Track listing

All tracks by Curve

Retail version

  1. "Chinese Burn" - 4:50
  2. "Coming Up Roses" - 4:33
  3. "Something Familiar" - 4:07
  4. "Dog Bone" - 3:13
  5. "Alligators Getting Up" - 4:36
  6. "Dirty High" - 5:22
  7. "Killer Baby" - 3:54
  8. "Sweetback" - 4:31
  9. "Forgotten Sanity" - 4:33
  10. "Cotton Candy" - 5:32
  11. "Beyond Reach" - 4:55
  12. "Come Clean" - 2:16
  13. "Recovery" - 4:48

    Advance tape (1997)

Curve: Unmixed, Unmastered And Not Sequenced
  1. "Dirty High " - 5:22
  2. "Forgotten Sanity" - 4:33
  3. "Killer Baby" - 3:54
  4. "Something Familiar" - 4:07
  5. "Chinese Burn " - 4:28
  6. "Sweetback" - 4:31
  7. "Coming Up Roses " - 5:02
  8. "Alligators Getting Up" - 4:36
  9. "Dog Bone " - 3:20
  10. "Recovery" - 4:48
  11. "Cotton Candy" - 5:32
  12. "Beyond Reach" - 4:55

    Personnel