Come Clean (Curve album)

Stuart Derdeyn of The Province wrote that Come Clean found Curve "updating its sound to better reflect the noise and punch of contemporary electronic rock".{{cite news|last=Derdeyn|first=Stuart|title=Friday offers slice of the Bacons|newspaper=The Province|date=25 June 1998}} The A.V. Club{{'}}s Joshua Klein said that the band expanded on the dance and electronic elements of their previous albums, with the music on Come Clean placing a heavier emphasis on "big beats".{{cite web|last=Klein|first=Joshua|url=https://www.avclub.com/curve-come-clean-1798196616|title=Curve: Come Clean|website=The A.V. Club|date=19 April 2002|access-date=5 May 2021}} Pitchfork critic Chris Ott noted the album's "danceable drum loops" and "blurry, detached" vocals, as well as its influence from trip hop band Portishead and the "ascendant club-techno" sound of The Chemical Brothers.{{cite web|last=Ott|first=Chris|url=http://pitchforkmedia.com/features/castoffs-and-cutouts/index3.shtml|title=Castoffs and Cutouts: The Top 50 Most Common Used CDs|website=Pitchfork|date=September 2003|access-date=5 May 2021|page=3|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031002021632/http://pitchforkmedia.com/features/castoffs-and-cutouts/index3.shtml|archive-date=2 October 2003|url-status=dead}} According to Ott, the record forgoes the "sexual intensity" and "icy shoegaze guitars" of Curve's earlier work.

After disbanding two years earlier, Curve reformed in 1996 and within the year announced the forthcoming release of a new album, which was tentatively titled Magic Music Medicine and set to be issued by the band's self-operated label FatLip Recordings.{{cite magazine|url=http://curve-online.co.uk/archive/articles/1996-98/nmeaug.php|title=Curve's Full Circle|magazine=NME|date=17 August 1996|access-date=5 May 2021}} In 1997, Curve signed to Universal, which ultimately issued the album, newly titled Come Clean.{{cite magazine|last=Lanham|first=Tom|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6ikEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA24|title=Curve: Reunited and It Feels So Good|magazine=CMJ New Music Monthly|issue=55|date=March 1998|access-date=5 May 2021|pages=24–25}}

Come Clean was released by Estupendo Records and its parent label Universal on 10 March 1998 in the United States,{{cite magazine|last=Roberts|first=Randall|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3CoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA48|title=Curve: Come Clean|magazine=CMJ New Music Monthly|issue=56|date=April 1998|access-date=5 May 2021|page=48}} and on 18 May 1998 in the United Kingdom.{{cite AV media|title=Come Clean|url=https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/vl8AAOSw5vJfEqFC/s-l1600.jpg|access-date=5 May 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210505073442/https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/vl8AAOSw5vJfEqFC/s-l1600.jpg|archive-date=5 May 2021|url-status=unfit|publisher=Estupendo Records / Universal|year=1998|type=press advertisement}} The lead single from Come Clean, "Chinese Burn", was released on 18 November 1997.{{cite news|title=Other discs scheduled for release Tuesday|newspaper=Detroit Free Press|date=16 November 1997}} "Coming Up Roses" was issued as the album's second single on 4 May 1998.{{cite AV media|title=Coming Up Roses|url=https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/zMEAAOSw5yVforb~/s-l1600.jpg|access-date=5 May 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210505085325/https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/zMEAAOSw5yVforb~/s-l1600.jpg|archive-date=5 May 2021|url-status=unfit|publisher=Estupendo Records / Universal|year=1998|type=press advertisement}}

{{Track listing

| all_writing = Dean Garcia and Toni Halliday

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| title1 = Chinese Burn

| extra1 = {{hlist|Curve|Steve Osborne}}

| length1 = 4:50

| title2 = Coming Up Roses

| extra2 = {{hlist|Curve|Osborne}}

| length2 = 4:31

| title3 = Something Familiar

| extra3 = {{hlist|Curve|Tim Simenon}}

| length3 = 4:08

| title4 = Dog Bone

| extra4 = Curve

| length4 = 3:13

| title5 = Alligators Getting Up

| extra5 = {{hlist|Curve|Simenon}}

| length5 = 4:36

| title6 = Dirty High

| extra6 = {{hlist|Curve|Osborne|Simenon}}

| length6 = 5:21

| title7 = Killer Baby

| extra7 = {{hlist|Curve|Simenon}}

| length7 = 3:55

| title8 = Sweetback

| extra8 = {{hlist|Curve|Simenon}}

| length8 = 4:31

| title9 = Forgotten Sanity

| extra9 = {{hlist|Curve|Simenon}}

| length9 = 4:32

| title10 = Cotton Candy

| extra10 = {{hlist|Curve|Simenon}}

| length10 = 5:32

| title11 = Beyond Reach

| extra11 = {{hlist|Curve|Simenon}}

| length11 = 4:55

| title12 = Come Clean

| extra12 = Curve

| length12 = 2:16

| title13 = Recovery

| extra13 = {{hlist|Curve|Simenon}}

| length13 = 4:48

| total_length = 57:08

}}

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.{{cite AV media notes|title=Come Clean|others=Curve|publisher=Estupendo Records / Universal|year=1998|id=UD-53121|type=liner notes}}

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Curve

• Dean Garcia – bass, drums, guitar, keyboard and electronics programming
• Toni Halliday – vocals, guitar, sound effects

Additional musicians

• Flood – electronics on "Dirty High"
• Sally Herbert – violin on "Something Familiar" and "Forgotten Sanity"
• Ben Hillier – additional drum programming on "Killer Baby"
• Alan Moulder – guitar on "Coming Up Roses", "Killer Baby", "Forgotten Sanity", "Cotton Candy" and "Recovery"
• Toshio Nakanishi – electronics on "Alligators Getting Up" and "Killer Baby"
• Steve Osborne – arrangement on "Chinese Burn", "Coming Up Roses" and "Dirty High"
• Tim Simenon – arrangement
• Óskar Páll Sveinsson – Moog synthesizer on "Cotton Candy"
• Justin Welch – drums on "Something Familiar"

{{column}}

Production

• James Brown – mixing (assistant)
• Curve – production, engineering, recording, mixing on "Come Clean"
• Ben Hillier – engineering on "Chinese Burn", "Coming Up Roses" and "Dirty High", mixing (assistant) on "Chinese Burn"
• Graham Hog – mixing (assistant)
• Guy Massey – mixing (assistant)
• Kevin Metcalfe – mastering
• Alan Moulder – mixing
• Darren Nash – engineering (assistant) on "Chinese Burn", "Coming Up Roses" and "Dirty High", mixing (assistant) on "Chinese Burn"
• Steve Osborne – production and transferral on "Chinese Burn", "Coming Up Roses" and "Dirty High", mixing on "Chinese Burn"
• Tom Rixton – engineering (assistant), sorting
• Dave Russell – mixing (assistant)
• Tim Simenon – production, mixing, transferral
• Óskar Páll Sveinsson – engineering, Pro Tools

Design

• Brooksy – cover photography
• Richard Harrington – art direction, design
• Anna Pretty – metal brand creation

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