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Rating: "Pubic Fruit" is the union of the first three LPs by Curve, the band/duo formed by Dean Garcia and Tony Halliday. After the success of their first work "Doppelgänger" in the same year, '92, this album-compilation was released, containing their first experiments from '91 that allowed the duo to continue their (brief) career. It starts with "The Blindfold EP" and it's already a real surprise to come into contact with four musical tracks so different from each other, ranging from rock, to grunge, to electronic, powerful bass lines (sometimes annoying); and so, between one composition and another, the memory and desire to continue the alternative dream-pop wave very much in vogue at that time resonate, contaminated with some rap choruses ("Ten Little Girls"), sometimes rock ("I Speak Your Every Word"), the spoken word at times imperceptible ("Blindfold", in my opinion one of the best tracks), the electronic ("No Escape From Heaven").
The journey continues with "The Frozen EP," and the title itself is already a program (if we exclude the explosive charge of "Coast is Clear"): presence of much darker, slower tracks, sometimes echoing pain, a nightmare, other times something coming from tribes ("Zoo"). The sound remains fairly personal and is listenable. In fact, the flaw in Curve's albums has often been their desire to overdo it, baffling the listener, sinning with presumption in the Shoegaze genre, thereby losing much of the little success they had garnered, also giving other bands the opportunity to reap what they had sown, with the result, no longer achieved, of winning back their fans who were increasingly disappointed with each album.
But the Curve of "Pubic Fruit" are instead intact, and despite their sometimes so different experiments, they really have the power to make you escape reality and immerse yourself in a strange, electronic, spatial, ethereal atmosphere. It continues indeed with the last EP "The Cherry EP": "Clipped" (later included in "Doppelgänger") prepares us for the journey we will gradually undertake, passing through "Die Like A Dog" in which the voice becomes increasingly thin, making way for a true cacophony of sounds; it's time for the first stop on this imaginative tour with "Galaxy", where distant sounds are wisely mixed together, never compromising the electronic vein. Credit and perhaps more than credit goes to the title track ("Cherry"), deserving all my compliments for the extraordinary power and versatility with which the transition from almost deliberate whispering to true unleashed violence takes place, which seems to make surreal images flow through your mind, composing themselves before your eyes as the sonic barrier is broken, leaving you breathless. A shiver runs through me and it's almost magic. The last track, "Faît Accompli", here present in "Extended Mix," adds nothing to the version already present in their first work.
A mix of well-selected ingredients for the entrance into the alternative scene of this group. It's a pity for their future choices and for the departure from this genre (perhaps a bit too overused). Nevertheless, they deserve a listen and it would certainly please someone that they are still musically active, perhaps with something that approaches and continues with their beginnings.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Ten Little Girls (04:27)
You think of no-one but yourself
You see the rest of us as fools
He said
don't feel guilty
don't go crazy
don't get paranoid with me
You play the prophet like a man
Makes no sense in the overall master plan
She said
don't feel guilty
don't go crazy
don't get paranoid with me
The arrogance of the youth
You wanna prove something
Picking up a microphone, starts one thinking older
As the fear starts to grow inside
See what it's like to live a lie
Nothing is like you thought it was
You felt the cause
Yhat you had, my friend is lost
Drifting away and if you play another day
Long ago, my friends, long ago
It doesn't matter what i say
You can push your luck away
Don't go crazy
Don't feel--
Don't get--
Now y'all know I
Will take you down with the sound so I
Know that time has passed
Climb into another rhyme designed too fast
From the well of deceipt he has to move on
It doesn't matter how we get a groove on
Now you find that you were younger then
Looking back don't ever pretend
That it was good as it was not, that's what we got
Busted out your friends, you know what you got
The truth right in your lap
That's a fact jack
The arrogance of youth is not claptrap
Nothing is right everything is wrong
Push your mike right to come along
Too strong
uh-huh, gettin older
And now you realise all the lies
That were otherwise
Because my eyes can see the truth, 'n reality...
Ten little girls come out to play
They didn't stand a chance they got blown away (say it isn't so)
Ten little boys come out to play
They didn't stand a chance they got blown away (say it isn't so)
Nine little girls got blown away (no, no, no, no)
They didn't even have their own place to stay (say it isn't so)
Nine little boys got blown away (no, no, no, no)
They didn't even have their own place to stay (say it isn't so)
...arrogance...
the arrogance of the youth
Edz
03 Blindfold (04:32)
You better believe it, hey yeah
You better believe it, hey yeah
You better believe it, hey yeah
You better believe it, hey yeah
The stronger the man
The stronger the woman
If it ended now
Would you be willing
I've given you everything
I've given you nothing
See how it feels for me
Do you believe in me?
The stronger the man
The stronger the woman
If it ended now
Would you be willing
Do you believe in me?
See how it feels for me
04 No Escape From Heaven (04:21)
(THE Blindfold EP.)
I can see through your eyes, the back of your mind
All that's said is fiction, the blind leading the blind
I like to take your clothes off, and play for a while
Now hold my hand in summertime, walk for miles and you'll be a man
Hold my hand in summertime, and you are mine
It's no escape from heaven, try is in my eyes
It's no escape from heaven
I lie on the floor, don't open your eyes
Just listen to the sweetness of a slumber dive
Wake my heart of anger, let me in love
Push me into danger, give me a shove
Hold my hand in summertime, walk for miles and you'll be a man
Hold my hand in summertime, and you are mine
It's no escape from heaven, try is in my eyes
It's no escape from heaven
It's no escape from heaven, try is in my eyes
It's no escape from heaven
Hold my hand in summertime
Ohh just hold my hand in summertime
Hold me, hold me, hold me like you used to
Hold me, hold me, hold me like you used to
Hold me, like you used to
Hold me, like you used to
Hold my hand in summertime, walk for miles and you'll be a man
Hold my hand in summertime
Ohh Hold me, hold me, like you used to
05 Coast is Clear (04:01)
Above my bed in this ugly room
[hangs] the whisper of the sandman
You could [be my father]
for the ... [shown]
It's just a little too late
it's never enough to swallow those pills
Now I'm sick and always will be
Take it, I don't want it
you can have what you like
Just don't try to [trick me deceive]
then turn out those [lies]
Dreams [many ...] ([be my father])
[Just] when you thought it was all right
Coast is clear
06 The Colour Hurts (04:35)
In mongst the beginning
The final curtain descends
The doorway to dating
Has revealed, it smells tense
The colour hurts, in this last breath of sins
Why do you grow inside me
It smells of dew as if spirals to victory says
Why do you grow inside me
Leave me alone
I was doing okay before
But now you're here, hold my hand
Now you've won, I understand
The colour hurts, in this last breath of sins
Why do you grow inside me
It smells of dew as if spirals to victory says
Why do you grow inside me
Leave me alone
Ohh leave me alone
It's a [...] world for the complex is a [...] of sins
The colour hurts, in this last breath of sins
Why do you grow inside me
It smells of dew as if spirals to victory says
Why do you grow inside me
Sell me some rebirth [repeat 4]
07 Frozen (03:59)
In my eyes you smile like an angel
Blessed with love, in this deep mine
In my mind you sound like a creature
Blessed with soon, in this deep mine
In my heart, and in my soul
And everywhere I go
You are with me
I can feel you everywhere
Certain something in the air
You are with me
You are with me
Anyway, you cry like a baby
Blessed with [...], in this deep mine
You were born, and I were born
Waiting true for long to know
I will be, in this deep mine
In my heart, and in my soul
And everywhere I go
You are with me
I can feel you everywhere
Certain something in the air
You are with me
In my heart, and in my soul
And everywhere I go
You are with me
I can feel you everywhere
Certain something in the air
You are with me
You know, that man next door
Is getting on my nerves
Cos he's so rich in his low down politics
And you know his wife
She's such a pretty thing
09 Clipped (04:14)
Only in days, they get together
They're talking volumes, and drink some coffee
Clipped [...], clear and bright
They pour out [...], their own true mankind
There's no truth, it's extinct
There's no lies, that's gone too
There's no truth, it's extinct
There's no lies, that's gone too
All he says causes scandal
I've heard it said that he's the original of the vandal
He steals your words
Clears our mind
There's no way, you can fool me
There's no way, that's for sure
There's no way, like accepting
There's no way, that's damned sure
There's no way, you can fool me
There's no way, that's for sure
Hopelessly untrue
Yeah yeah
There's no truth
There's no lies
There's no way, you can fool me
There's no way, that's for sure
There's no way, you can move me
There's no way, for sure
There's no truth
There's no lies
10 Die Like a Dog (04:41)
(THE Cherry EP.)
Could've, inable
I will take the fall
Could've, [...]
I will play ball
Hiding inner hope
I am secret oath
I get black and cold
I won't play ball
Peace in a world free from religion
Peace in a world where everyone gets heaven
Peace in a world free from religion
Peace in a world where everyone gets heaven
I'd like to say, to say that I'd survive
I'd like to [...], to say that I'd survive
Peace in a world free from religion
Peace in a world where everyone get heaven
Peace in a world free from religion
Peace in a world where everyone gets heaven
Just try not to die like a dog
End up alone, freezing from the smog
I'm just trying not to die in vain
Then leave my mark, stake my claim
Peace in a world free from religion
Peace in a world where everyone gets heaven
Peace in a world free from religion
Peace in a world where everyone gets heaven
Peace in a world free from religion
Peace in a world where everyone gets heaven
Peace in a world, Peace in a world, Peace in a world
Free from religion
Listen to my eyes clean
In colorful confessions
I remember mutual aggression
Is all in the body's lips
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