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- Date Released: January 1, 1998
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Rock
- Label: Unit Circle Rekkids / CD Baby
An album just ahead of the newgazing curve.
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We Say...
This southern California band's stated motto is "atmosphere, arrangement, sound, layering and noise." Its third album, Gold, should thrill anyone seeking these qualities. It boasts the cosmic showers of Slowdive, the underwater undulations of My Bloody Valentine and the fragile melodies of Pale Saints. But while the sounds are derivative, the songs vibrate with discovery and, for the first time, the band seems in complete control over its echoing instruments. While this album came ahead of the newgazing curve, it found a niche audience and became an influential force in the evolution of the genre. In later years, Bethany Curve would add more conventional melodies and dynamics to its songs, but for fans of glistening ethereal textures, this one's pure Gold.
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They Say...
Bethany Curve's third album, Gold, finds the band building on their considerable strengths. While the fivesome still remain squarely in the post-shoegazer camp, their abilities seem only to grow stronger with time. "Drag," the album's monstrous opener, is their best number yet. With its yearning, commanding vocals, explosive build-and-release atmospherics, and deeply echoed guitar drones and wails, the song achieves a pure, powerful beauty rivaling the very best of Slowdive or even My Bloody Valentine. If nothing else on the album quite reaches the Elysian heights of "Drag," the band still come awfully close more than once: "Fold in the Floor" has more huge, majestic guitar squalls; "Over and Out" balances a thrashy main hook and forceful drums with blissed-out feedback; and "Strength" begins with various strange crumbling noises before a series of lovely guitar washes float up through the mix and take over. Meanwhile, the album closes on a killer note with "Marasmus," a long jam with sharp drumming, droning vocal chants, and a palpable sense of massed psychedelic power.
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Drag |
7:18 |
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| 02. | |
Temporary |
4:57 |
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| 03. | |
Carnyval Sweet |
4:06 |
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| 04. | |
Fold In The Floor |
5:08 |
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| 05. | |
Fourteen |
1:46 |
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| 06. | |
Pool and the Shine |
5:58 |
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| 07. | |
Strength |
6:39 |
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| 08. | |
Cygnus X-1 |
3:50 |
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| 09. | |
Movement |
5:45 |
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| 10. | |
Marasmus |
4:36 |
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10 Total Tracks, 50:03 Total Length
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Credits
- Ray Lake - Guitar // Ray Lake - Vocals // Mell Dettmer - Mastering // Bethany Curve - Producer // Bethany Curve - Main Performer // David Mac Wha - Drums // Richard Millang - Guitar // Richard Millang - Vocals // Chris Preston - Bass // Chris Preston - Guitar // Chris Preston - Vocals // Michael Haumesser - Engineer // Michael Haumesser - Sampling
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