| Gift | ||||
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| Studio album by Curve | ||||
| Released | 18 September 2001 (US) 1 July 2002 (UK) 3 February 2003 (Australia) |
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| Recorded | 2000 | |||
| Genre | Electronica, alternative rock | |||
| Label | Hip-O (US) FatLip/Artful (UK) Hoop Culture (Australia) |
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Gift was the fourth all-new studio album to be released by the British band Curve.
Following two years of legal wrangles between the group and their then record company, Universal Records, the online success of Curve's self-released album Open Day at the Hate Fest convinced Universal - who had been threatening to shelve the album completely - to market it in the United States in 2001 under the Hip-O Records brand. The UK version was released a year later by FatLip Recordings in collaboration with Artful Records. A year after that, the album was released in Australia by Hoop Culture Records.[1]
Of the songs on the record, "Hell Above Water" has gained the highest public profile as a result of its use in trailers for both the 2002 film Spider-Man, the 2008 film Iron Man, the 2004 film Mindhunters, an episode for the popular crime drama CSI (Episode 207, "Caged"), and featured in a scene in the 2008 film Lakeview Terrace. It is also featured in the PlayStation 3 game MotorStorm.
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