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Bethany Curve is a shoegaze band from Santa Cruz, California. The band was … Read Full Bio ↴Bethany Curve is a shoegaze band from Santa Cruz, California. The band was formed in 1994, just as the first generation British shoegaze bands such as Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, Lush began to dissolve and disappear, Bethany Curve was one of many American post-shoegazers to take its influences into a new darker element. Their trademark sound, best experienced live, is equally as bass laden as it is it filled with haunting echoes of spacey delay. Singer and Guitarist Richard Millang's song structures are written like story lines that contain many different haunting verses and deep choruses surrounded by bridges that never repeat. Even today Bethany Curve is continuing their trademark motto of

"Atmosphere | Arrangement | Sound | Layering | Noise"

Bethany Curve is still very active, currently working on their 7th full-length record as of 2011 called Murder. The band derived it's name from a short street called Bethany Curve near the cliffs of the Monterey Bay in Santa Cruz. Richard Millang originally disliked it because it sounded similar to bands like Catherine Wheel.

Releases:

1995 - Mee-eaux (Cassette) - Hypnosigh records *Out of Print
1996 - Skies A Crossed Sky (CD) - Unit Circle Rekkids
1998 - Gold (CD) - Unit Circle Rekkids
2001 - You Brought Us Here (CD) - Unit Circle Rekkids *Out of Print
2003 - Flaxen (mini CD) - Kitchen Whore Records
2019 - Murder (CD) - Kitchen Whore Records

Tracks also Appear On:

1996 - Nocturne Concrète (CD) - Spacirelei - Unit Circle Rekkids
1997 - Splashed With Many A Speck (2xCD, Comp) - Serene & Smiling - Dewdrops Records

Outside Links:

https://www.bethanycurve.com/
https://bethanycurve.bandcamp.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bethany-Curve/264263167408
http://www.unitcircle.com/rekkids/artists/BethanyCurve/




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Bethany Curve Lyrics


We have lyrics for these tracks by Bethany Curve:


Long Beach Nothing's sure inside my head Seems like life is ever still …
Silver Sooner say she runs down Into halls filled with love Give he…


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Comments from YouTube:

@EmbraceEmptiness

absolutely love bethany curve. they took their name after a street in santa cruz. first thime i listened to them i fell in love with their cold dreamy dark shoegaze sound.

@criminvlmvnnx

Where are from??

@paolovallejo8022

@@criminvlmvnnx Santa Cruz, CA

@vengeancegauloise6049

Probably my favourite shoegaze band... Huge sound, just exploding with hazy feeling, they capture the "wall of sound" so beautifully. Long Beach still blows me away

@Housesider

One of the best songs on the album, though that's kinda weird to say since all of "You Brought Us Here" is pretty brilliant.

@MultiNatla

I want a documentary on this song. somehow I keep thinking it's the most monumental piece of music I've ever heard. and this ain't a whim. I've been thinking about this for years.

@darrenbrown8877

The whole world would stop being so chaotic and suddenly make sense when I used to listen to this on the train home from school as a teenager

@hoba123123

this is like heroine

@1001plateaus

wow, brilliant. I used to be a die-hard fan of ambient noise, these kind of shoegazing epic still sounds brilliant and touches hearts

@mistertango

Great photo! Great memories of this song -- and the photo really works with it.

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