Cuckoo (album)

Cuckoo
Studio album by Curve
Released	21 September 1993
Recorded	1993
Length	45:52
Label	Anxious Records
Producer	Flood, Steve Osborne
Curve chronology
Radio Sessions (1993) Cuckoo (1993) Come Clean (1998)
Singles from Cuckoo
"Missing Link" Released: 23 August 1993 "Superblaster" Released: 8 November 1993

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
NME	5/10
Q
Select
Vox	6/10

Cuckoo was the second studio album released by the British band Curve in 1993. A musically more varied but significantly darker release than Curve's debut, Doppelgänger, Cuckoo performed poorly in the UK charts compared to the band's first LP.

Background

In 1993 Curve released Cuckoo. Two singles from the album were released, "Missing Link" and "Superblaster". Both featured videos to accompany the singles. The album's relative commercial failure is likely to have been one of the main reasons for the band's decision to (temporarily) disband in 1994.

In the August 1996 issue of Select magazine, Toni Halliday said: "I still think our second album was our best. It got to the point where Dean [Garcia] didn't want to tour. We did reach that point of hedonistic head-fuckery, glugging JD, hollering 'Where's the schnozz?' You finally get that out of your system and think, 'This is sad.' We couldn't have gone on like that".

Track listing

All tracks by Dean Garcia & Toni Halliday

1. "Missing Link" – 4:58
2. "Crystal" - 4:02
3. "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" – 4:36
4. "All of One" – 4:19
5. "Unreadable Communication" – 5:55
6. "Turkey Crossing" – 4:52
7. "Superblaster" – 3:59
8. "Left of Mother" – 4:10
9. "Sweetest Pie" – 3:59
10. "Cuckoo" – 4:55

Personnel

• Curve – Producer
• Flood – Producer
• Dean Garcia – Guitar
• Toni Halliday – Vocals
• Sally Herbert – Violin ("Left of Mother" and "Superblaster")
• Alan Moulder – Engineer
• Steve Osborne – Producer