| Curve - Come Clean |
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| Music Disc Reviews Audio CD | |
| Written by Jerry Del Colliano | |
| Tuesday, 10 March 1998 | |
Universal Records | Performance 5.5 | Sound 6.5 | When I went to the register with my new Curve CD in hand, the Elvis impersonator-checkout guy informed me that "Curve's been doing the Garbage thing way before Garbage was even thought of." With that in mind I went home to audition Come Clean, the new highly recommended, record from Curve. In the car, I was impressed. The instrumentals were hot, the production was happening and the CD had some serious potential. When I got it home and had the chance to spin through the record five or six times, I became disturbed by something about the record.
It was the vocals. They simply suck.
"Chinese Burn," the first cut, is a scorching track that unfortunately
punished me with the most atonal singing I have heard from a rock act
in years. While Garbage's Version 2.0 has grown on me over time,
Curve's Come Clean has lost much of its appeal. Curve is a band that
could be really happening, but on Come Clean they just fall short. Like this article? Bookmark and share with any of the sites below.        |
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