Come Clean was the first album to be released by the British band Curve

Curve (band)

Curve was an English music group formed in 1990 chiefly around the collaboration of singer/songwriter Toni Halliday and bassist/guitarist/programmer Dean Garcia.-History:...

 following their temporary split in 1994 and reformation in 1996, and their third all-new studio album in all.

Musically, the album marked a shift to a style more influenced by electronic

Electronic music

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 and dance music

Dance music

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 than Curve's earlier records. Significantly, the commercial success of and critical acclaim for Come Clean (at least relative to the reception that the group's harsher and less accessible 1993 record Cuckoo

Cuckoo (Curve album)

Cuckoo was the second all-new studio album to be released by the British band Curve.The album - a musically more varied but significantly darker release than Curve's debut, Doppelgänger - performed poorly in the UK charts compared to the band's first LP, and its relative commercial failure is...

had received) encouraged Curve to continue recording.

The working title for the album was, according to several interviews executed in 1996: Magic Music Medicine. In the fall of 1997 the bands American record company circulated a promo cassette titled Curve: Unmixed, Unmastered And Not Sequenced, which featured 12 of the songs from Come Clean. The tape had the tracks appearing in a different running order and some of them appeared in different versions.

Retail version

1. "Chinese Burn" - 4:50
2. "Coming Up Roses" - 4:33
3. "Something Familiar" - 4:07
4. "Dog Bone" - 3:13
5. "Alligators Getting Up" - 4:36
6. "Dirty High" - 5:22
7. "Killer Baby" - 3:54
8. "Sweetback" - 4:31
9. "Forgotten Sanity" - 4:33
10. "Cotton Candy" - 5:32
11. "Beyond Reach" - 4:55
12. "Come Clean" - 2:16
13. "Recovery" - 4:48

Advance tape (1997)

Curve: Unmixed, Unmastered And Not Sequenced

1. "Dirty High [rough mix]" - 5:22
2. "Forgotten Sanity" - 4:33
3. "Killer Baby" - 3:54
4. "Something Familiar" - 4:07
5. "Chinese Burn [Flood mix]" - 4:28
6. "Sweetback" - 4:31
7. "Coming Up Roses [rough mix]" - 5:02
8. "Alligators Getting Up" - 4:36
9. "Dog Bone [rough mix]" - 3:20
10. "Recovery" - 4:48
11. "Cotton Candy" - 5:32
12. "Beyond Reach" - 4:55

Personnel

• Curve – Producer
• Dean Garcia – Bass, Guitar, Drums, Programming, Engineer
• Toni Halliday – Vocals, Engineer
• Richard Harrington – Art Direction, Design
• Sally Herbert – Violin
• Ben Hillier – Engineer
• Alan Moulder – Guitar
• Darren Nash – Assistant Engineer
• Steve Osborne – Arranger, Producer
• Oskar Paul – Moog Synthesizer, Engineer
• Tom Rixton – Assistant Engineer
• Tim Simenon – Arranger, Producer
• Jason Welch – Drums