Curve (Our Lady Peace album)
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| Studio album by Our Lady Peace | ||||
| Released | April 3, 2012 | |||
| Recorded | January 2010—February 2012 Los Angeles, California, US |
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| Length | 41:39 | |||
| Label | Warner Music | |||
| Producer |
Jason Lader Raine Maida |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 49/100 |
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| AllMusic |    |
| Consequence of Sound | D- |
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Curve is the eighth and most recent studio album by Canadian alternative rock band Our Lady Peace (OLP), released on April 3, 2012. The album was recorded from 2010 through 2012 at vocalist Raine Maida's home recording studio. Curve's first single, "Heavyweight", was released on December 20, 2011. The music from Curve has been touted by lead singer Maida as being "more experimental and ambitious" than the band's 2000 concept album Spiritual Machines. The album's cover features Canadian heavyweight boxer George Chuvalo, whose vocal excerpts are featured in the album's tenth and final track "Mettle".
The album debuted at No.9 on the Canadian Albums Chart. This is the last album to feature drummer Jeremy Taggart, who left the band in June 2014. The album's release marks the longest gap between Our Lady Peace studio albums to date, with Curve being released in April 2012 and no release date in sight for their next album.
The band began recording Curve about six months after the release of their seventh studio album, Burn Burn. As with Burn Burn, the album was recorded at Raine Maida's studio in Los Angeles and is not attached to a major record label. Fans were provided with unprecedented live footage of the band recording the album via Ustream throughout early to mid-2011. Band members also provided live updates on the progress of the album, including song titles and lyrics, via Twitter and Facebook.
Curve's artistic direction was inspired by the band's 2010 Clumsy and Spiritual Machines tour, as well as by constructive criticism from a friend of the band's, Jason Lader, who later became producer of the album. When Lader was shown some early working material from the album, he criticized it, saying "why don't you make a record that you would listen to?". This prompted the band to scrap all of the material they'd written and recorded up to that point, and to start over fresh.
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