Artist description Bethany Curve is a Guitar-based line-up, with male vocals, releasing high doses of layered sounds.

Music Style |||| Atmosphere |||| Arrangement |||| Sound |||| Layering |||| Noise ||||

Musical Influences Robin Guthrie, Charles Thompson, Tom Jobim, Brendan Perry, Angelo Badalamenti

Similar Artists See Influences.

Artist History Began in Santa Cruz, California in May 1994.

Group Members Richard Millang, David Mac Wha, Nathan Guevara, Daved Lockhart

Instruments Vocals, Guitar, Bass and Drums

Albums Mee-eaux 1995, Skies a Crossed Sky 1996, Gold 1998, You Brought Us Here 2001

Press Reviews AMG EXPERT REVIEW: Bethany Curve's third album, Gold, finds the band building on their considerable strengths. While the foursome 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. — Ned Raggett, AMG

Location Santa Cruz, CA - USA

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