''Cuckoo'' is the second studio album by English

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band

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. It was released on 13 September 1993 and was issued by Anxious Records and

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. A musically more varied but significantly darker release than Curve's 1992 debut album ''

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'', ''Cuckoo'' was less commercially successful than the band's previous releases.

Release

''Cuckoo'' was released in the United Kingdom on 13 September 1993 by Anxious Records, and in the United States on 21 September 1993 by Anxious and

. Two singles were issued from the album: " Blackerthreetracker" (which featured the ''Cuckoo'' song " Missing Link" as its lead track) on 23 August 1993, and " Superblaster" on 8 November 1993. In the UK, ''Cuckoo'' underperformed commercially compared to previous Curve releases, peaking at number 23 on the

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. Several months after the album's release, Curve disbanded, though they would reform in 1996. In the August 1996 issue of '' Select'' magazine, Curve frontwoman

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said: "I still think our second album was our best. It got to the point where Dean 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

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. Curve *

Dean Garcia Dean Garcia (born 3 May 1958) is an English multi-instrumentalist musician, best known as a member of the alternative rock duo Curve from 1990 to 2005. He also released solo work and collaborated with many other artists. Biography Garcia was ...

– bass, guitar, drum programming *

– vocals Additional musicians *

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– electronics * Sally Herbert – violin on "Superblaster" and "Left of Mother" * Alex Mitchell – guitar * Steve Monti – drums on "Crystal", "Superblaster" and "Sweetest Pie" *

Alan Moulder Alan Moulder (born 11 June 1959) is an English record producer, mixing engineer, and audio engineer. Early life Moulder was born on 11 June 1959 in Boston, Lincolnshire. He was educated at Boston Grammar School. He had an interest in music ...

– guitar *

Steve Osborne Stephen John "Steve" Osborne (born 1963) is a British record producer, living in Bath, England. He has worked with a wide variety of musicians, including Suede, the B-52s, A-ha, New Order, Elbow, U2, Happy Mondays, Placebo, Gregory Porter, D ...

– guitar * Debbie Smith – guitar Production * Darren Allison – mixing (assistant) * Curve – production * Flood – production * Alan Moulder – mixing * Steve Osborne – production on "Unreadable Communication", "Turkey Crossing" and "Cuckoo" Design *

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– band photography * Flat Earth – sleeve design, cover photography * Vaughan Matthews – cover photography

Charts

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cuckoo (album) 1993 albums Curve (band) albums Albums produced by Flood (producer) Albums produced by Steve Osborne Charisma Records albums