--- product_id: 60353255 title: "Cuckoo" brand: "curve" price: "€ 285.73" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.nl/products/60353255-cuckoo store_origin: NL region: Netherlands --- # Cuckoo **Brand:** curve **Price:** € 285.73 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Cuckoo by curve - **How much does it cost?** € 285.73 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.nl](https://www.desertcart.nl/products/60353255-cuckoo) ## Best For - curve enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted curve brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing including digital download. Described, variously, as "dusky and mysterious, cosmetic and up-for-it", "Industrial techno disco," and "like a Japanese express train", Curve's second album Cuckoo is more sophisticated, more seductive, less serrated, even squelchy in places than their debut, Doppelganger. A mature, fluent, and literary album, it hit the Top 30 on release in 1993. Cuckoo takes the listener from the established hallmarks and runs with them - over the horizon - to many new and rich areas of pop melodrama. Delicate and gorgeous moments sit easily with their simultaneously cool and incendiary sound. A more personal album, it is nonetheless metallic, unforgiving, loud, clear. As with Doppelganger the album was produced by the band with Flood and Steve Osborne, and it was mixed by Alan Moulder. It is home to the lead tracks from singles Blackerthreetracker EP and 'Superblaster' and is regarded by the band as their best piece of work. ## Images ![Cuckoo - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71M0VC4+5OL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars A Great Slice of 1990s Alternative Rock Your Parents Never Told You About *by K***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 1, 2020* I did not give Curve their just due back in the 1990s and that's a shame. They are a nexus between shoe-gazing Brit-pop, industrial, and electronica; three genres of music that were becoming increasingly mainstream then. Fans of Alanis Morissette and Garbage will feel at home with Curve. Think Republica, but less rave-y. Unfortunately for me, college radio had all of these groups, artists, the more commercial offerings of the previously mentioned genres (and then some) on endless, robotic rotation ad nauseam.Fast forward through the decades and I'm on a 1990s kick. While revisiting bands like Republica, Ruby, and Garbage, I pull out my old copy of Curve's debut, Doppelganger, and the EP collection, Pubic Fruit. My curiosity led me to Amazon and purchasing the sophomore album, Cuckoo, in expanded form with a second disc. I do not regret it.The opening track, Missing Link comes out hard like gangbusters. &#@%! It rocks!!! Then, they bring you down slowly, but Toni Halliday and Dean Garcia never bring it down to Trip-hop nodding tempo. They keep the mix dense and interesting. Their sound is really full. Think of Butch Vig's Garbage meets Republica and maybe some of Automatic/Honey's Dead era Jesus & Mary Chain thrown in.The second disc is a treat, opening with the rockin' Missing Link in its single mix followed by the freaking gnarly On The Wheel (did Sonic Youth stop in for a visit?). The next four songs are okay and provide for a little winding down. Then, Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails fame; perhaps you've heard of him) and producer Flood provide their "Screaming Bird Mix" of Missing Link. The Future Sound of London follow with a somewhat chilled out remix of non-album track Rising followed by the Drum Club's TB-303 acid-laced mix of another non-album track, Half The Time. Original mixes of the two non-album tracks conclude the second disc of goodies.So, why only four stars? I don't give four stars often and reserve such a rating for things that are personally exceptional. As mentioned previously, radio and MTV (ugh) to lesser extent ruined a lot of good music with overexposure. Lastly, the album, like its contemporaries is too well produced like the harbinger of modern, over-compressed swill lacking in harmonic variation. Fortunately, this release rocks. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars Good reissue for Curve fans *by A***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 1, 2021* This reissue is nice to have for the amount of b-sides/remixes/unreleased tracks added to the package, the only minor quibble is the remastering seems a little overly compressed but not enough to make it unlistenable. Nice to have back in circulation again! ### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars Review of vinyl pressing *by W***H on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 13, 2019* Curve were such an incredible group and this LP really makes a case for how influential they were on Garbage (a way more pop version of the same sound, to my ears). And as a live unit they were devastating. But this issue on vinyl sounds mushy and not loud enough. Same problem with Doppleganger. Perhaps remastering at 45 and pressing on double vinyl would have helped. Seem to remember the CDs sounded terrible too (but that is my general opinion of the sound of most CDs) so perhaps they are just crappy recordings but somehow think these deficiencies could have been corrected during mastering. While the sound of the band is claustrophobic the mastering makes it sound too distant and it loses punch. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.nl/products/60353255-cuckoo](https://www.desertcart.nl/products/60353255-cuckoo) --- *Product available on Desertcart Netherlands* *Store origin: NL* *Last updated: 2026-06-30*