Pubic Fruit
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{{Infobox album
| name = Pubic Fruit
| type = compilation
| artist = Curve
| cover = Pubic Fruit.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{start date|1992|11|17|df=yes}}
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio = {{hlist|Todal (London)|Eastcote (London)}}
| genre = Shoegaze
| length = {{duration|m=58|s=40}}
| label = {{hlist|Anxious|Charisma}}
| producer = {{hlist|Curve|Steve Osborne|Flood}}
| prev_title = Doppelgänger
| prev_year = 1992
| next_title = Radio Sessions
| next_year = 1993
}}
Pubic Fruit is a compilation album by English alternative rock band Curve. It was released exclusively in the United States on 17 November 1992 by Anxious Records and Charisma Records. The album compiles the band's first three EPs, as well as the extended version of their song "Faît Accompli".
Release
Curve released three critically acclaimed EPs – Blindfold, Frozen and Cherry – in the United Kingdom throughout 1991.{{cite web|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/curve-mn0000140885/biography|title=Curve|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=4 May 2021}} None of the tracks from these EPs were included on the band's 1992 debut studio album Doppelgänger, with the exception of "Clipped", which was added to the American pressing of the album. Released exclusively in the United States by Anxious Records and Charisma Records on 17 November 1992,{{cite magazine|last=Sexton|first=Paul|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/90s/1993/BB-1993-10-09.pdf|title=Virgin Execs See Straight Path to Success for Curve|magazine=Billboard|volume=105|issue=41|date=9 October 1993|access-date=4 May 2021|pages=1, 119}}{{cite news|last=Mayhew|first=Malcolm|title=Curve|newspaper=Fort Worth Star-Telegram|date=3 November 1992}} after Doppelgänger, Pubic Fruit compiles the three EPs, which had only been issued in the UK. The compilation also includes the extended version of the Doppelgänger track "Faît Accompli" (first released as a single in 1992), which likewise had not yet been commercially released in the US.
Critical reception
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|last=Demalon|first=Tom|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/pubic-fruit-mw0000616886|title=Pubic Fruit – Curve|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=26 December 2015}}
| rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
| rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NNmFiUnSmUC|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|isbn=9780857125958|via=books.google.com|last1=Larkin|first1=Colin|date=27 May 2011|publisher=Omnibus Press }}
}}
In 2016, Pitchfork ranked Pubic Fruit at number 19 on its list of the 50 best shoegaze albums of all time.{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9966-the-50-best-shoegaze-albums-of-all-time/?page=4|title=The 50 Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time|website=Pitchfork|date=24 October 2016|access-date=25 October 2016|page=4}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
| all_writing = Dean Garcia and Toni Halliday, except where noted
| extra_column = Original release
| title1 = Ten Little Girls
| note1 = additional lyrics by JC-001
| extra1 = Blindfold
| length1 = 4:27
| title2 = I Speak Your Every Word
| extra2 = Blindfold
| length2 = 3:54
| title3 = Blindfold
| extra3 = Blindfold
| length3 = 4:31
| title4 = No Escape from Heaven
| extra4 = Blindfold
| length4 = 4:20
| title5 = Coast Is Clear
| extra5 = Frozen
| length5 = 4:01
| title6 = The Colour Hurts
| extra6 = Frozen
| length6 = 4:34
| title7 = Frozen
| extra7 = Frozen
| length7 = 3:59
| title8 = Zoo
| extra8 = Frozen
| length8 = 3:51
| title9 = Clipped
| extra9 = Cherry
| length9 = 4:11
| title10 = Die Like a Dog
| extra10 = Cherry
| length10 = 4:41
| title11 = Galaxy
| extra11 = Cherry
| length11 = 3:56
| title12 = Cherry
| extra12 = Cherry
| length12 = 5:49
| title13 = Faît Accompli (Extended Extended Extended)
| extra13 = "Faît Accompli" single
| length13 = 6:26
| total_length = 58:40
}}
Personnel
Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.{{cite AV media notes|title=Pubic Fruit|others=Curve|publisher=Anxious Records / Charisma Records|year=1992|id=V2-86531 / 0777 7 86531 2 7|type=liner notes}}
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Curve
Production
- Darren Allison – mixing (assistant)
- Curve – production
- Flood – production
- Dick Meaney – mixing (assistant)
- Alan Moulder – mixing
- Steve Osborne – production
- Ronan Tal – mixing (assistant)
- Ingo Vauk – engineering
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Design
- Flat Earth – design, photography
- Barry Freidlander – photography
- Barry Maguire – photography
- Clare Muller – photography
- Dave Stewart – photography
- J. P. Wombbaby – photography
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References
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External links
- {{Discogs master|291940|Pubic Fruit}}
- {{MusicBrainz release group|mbid=6261cdd5-2485-33e2-8b9b-904ab0d4fa62|name=Pubic Fruit}}
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Category:1992 compilation albums
Category:Curve (band) compilation albums
Category:Albums produced by Steve Osborne