Curve
Curve gave shoegaze a heavier, more electronic edge. Toni Halliday's cool, breathy vocals floated over Dean Garcia's dense walls of distorted guitar, programmed drums and samples, a sound that pointed as much to the dance floor as to the indie disco.
Early EPs on Dave Stewart's Anxious label, later gathered on Pubic Fruit, made them music-press favourites, and the albums Doppelgänger and Cuckoo pushed the sound darker and more claustrophobic. After a break they returned with Come Clean, leaning harder into electronic rock, before calling it a day in 2005.
If you like Curve you should check out: Garbage, Lush, Cocteau Twins, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Nine Inch Nails, Massive Attack, Portishead, Mazzy Star
