- Audio CD (29 Jun 1992)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Imports
- ASIN: B00000DR75
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 160,300 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Already Yours |
| 2. Horrer Head |
| 3. Wish You Dead |
| 4. Doppelganger |
| 5. Lillies Dying |
| 6. Ice That Melts The Tips |
| 7. Split Into Fractions |
| 8. Think & Act |
| 9. Fait Accompli |
| 10. Sandpit |
| 11. Clipped |
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is Curves Masterpiece album with the most dark lyrics ever (apart from Lush's 'Split' album maybe). 'Already Yours' breaks you in with a rocky riff and catchy chorus leaving you open for the shear genius of 'Horrorhead'; one of Curves best tracks (Checkout the video if you can). Toni's breathing is used to full effect on this track.. where most bands tracks are so over produced that you loose all the human qualities.. Curve have (in a pre-Veruca Salt way) brought them to the forefront.. making this an anxious little number. Then things turn dark... 'Wish you were Dead' and 'Doppelganger' are black little numbers and are quite down beat for Curve.. but marvellous all the same. Then 'Lillies Dying' slams in for what is, for me, Curves best track ever. Toni's floaty voice over a rockin guitar riff once again proving that Curve taught Garbage everything they know. The rest of the album plays out with classic Curve style. 'Fait ..' and 'Split Into Fractions' are simply great tracks in the great Curve singles style. If you wanna get into Curve.. get this album.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Curve's finest hour is also the best thing to come out of the early 90s, even if it sounds much later than that. The formula is a wall of sumptuous, urgent pink noise, topped with Toni Halliday's sublime vocals - it could be the soundtrack to the best gritty, ubercool female assassin movie ever. To play the citation game, reference points for triangulating Curve would include Nine Inch Nails, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and My Bloody Valentine's 'Loveless' (and, unavoidably, Garbage, who somehow took the Curve formula to greater success with lesser songs). But Doppelganger is more pop-savvy than its forebears, melding industrial noise with rich shoegazey textures, that voice and, yes, tunes.
The high points are opener Already Yours, Horror Head, the sprawling brilliance of Fait Accompli and Clipped... oh, it's all good. Pride of place, though, is Lillies Dying, in which icy cold lyrics about a failing relationship (?) soar above a cyberpunk soundtrack. Yes, it is the best song ever... and the louder the better.
Doppelganger was Curve's high point -- the preceding EPs are brilliant but not as polished, and the follow-ups were incrementally more generic. Pubic Fruit, Cuckoo and Come Clean are all worth having, but if you're new to Curve then picking up Doppelganger is guaranteed not to disappoint. And the coherence and compactness makes Doppelganger a better place to start than the unfocused patchiness of the "The Way of Curve" collection.
The high points are opener Already Yours, Horror Head, the sprawling brilliance of Fait Accompli and Clipped... oh, it's all good. Pride of place, though, is Lillies Dying, in which icy cold lyrics about a failing relationship (?) soar above a cyberpunk soundtrack. Yes, it is the best song ever... and the louder the better.
Doppelganger was Curve's high point -- the preceding EPs are brilliant but not as polished, and the follow-ups were incrementally more generic. Pubic Fruit, Cuckoo and Come Clean are all worth having, but if you're new to Curve then picking up Doppelganger is guaranteed not to disappoint. And the coherence and compactness makes Doppelganger a better place to start than the unfocused patchiness of the "The Way of Curve" collection.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
A band ahead of it's time and 'Doppleganger', a superlative example of what Curve have to offer, is no exception. Toni Halliday and Dean Garcia were laying down tracks that fuse together rock guitar, sequencers and haunting melodies long before the word Garbage meant money in the bank to anyone except the trashman! Full of powerful lyrics sung to perfection and catchy riffs that just make you want to listen to it over and over again, Doppleganger is the pinnacle work of a band that never received a fraction of the fame and recognition they so richly deserved. Each of these songs just reaches inside you and pours raw emotion into your soul, from the gutsy angst and sheer spite of 'Wish You Dead' through to the confusion and bewilderment of 'Sandpit'. However, I cannot think of a more appropriate way to sum up the whole album than their own words, from the opening track 'Already Yours', Doppleganger is "A gift from God, a small creation, a prized possession without limitations...."
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What do you see / that isn't already yours
For me the killer track is the first one, "Already Yours". The rest of the album sounds like a variation on the ideas present in this song, with the same basic sound. Read more
Published on 16 Dec 2007 by Mr. A. Pomeroy
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