Curve’s debut album, Doppelgänger, may have come in at #11 but it was back outside the Top 75 within just three weeks. It was actually the same for all the EPs and singles, with each of them entering at their highest position after the first week of release, and then dropping out of sight.
A similar pattern was experienced with the next single, a remix of one of the most popular and acclaimed tracks on the debut album.
mp3: Curve – Horror Head (remix)
The week prior to its release on 6 July 1992, saw one of the NME staff writers, David Quantick, liaise with Mark E Smith to pen the pages that made up the Singles Review. Here’s their take:-
DQ: It’s the Goth Eurythmics, with their patent phased whoosh of melody, mystery and more-money-than-Lush type production. Awesome but somewhat unengaging.
MES : Great bass. Are these the ones who gave us Single Of The Week for ‘Free Range’? That Curve… I saw them in a hotel in Birmingham. Didn’t talk to them. I wouldn’t have thought they’d sound like this. Good though. Bass is brilliant, innit? The vocals are over-produced. It is really 4AD, though, that innit? Good though.
Despite MES’s unexpected enthusiasm, Horror Head came in at #31 and then dropped to #69.
There were three new songs made available on the 12″ and CD releases:-
mp3: Curve – Falling Free
mp3: Curve – Mission From God
mp3: Curve – Today Is Not The Day
Falling Free is good fun….the sort of thing that would go down really well in the indie-goth disco. Mission From God is more mid-paced, while Today Is Not The Day is almost a ballad and comes very close at times to Cocteau Twins territory.
Here’s the promo video:-
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 
‘Goth Eurythmics” is a tad harsh but amusing.
Well, the band did feature movers of the Eurythmics touring band, so that made the tag stick pretty strongly. I have the US promo CD of “Horror Head,” I think. I can’t remember what, if any B-sides came along for the ride. I liked Curve. I have a decent but by no means complete collection of their stuff.