Curve by Our Lady Peace

Curve, the eighth studio album from Toronto's Our Lady Peace, came out on April 3, 2012, after Raine Maida recorded it between 2010 and 2012 in his own home studio. Maida produced it as well, and he pitched it as a bigger, stranger swing than even Spiritual Machines, the band's 2000 concept record. Maida sings, Duncan Coutts plays bass, Steve Mazur handles guitar and Jeremy Taggart drums, and the whole thing has the restless feel of a band poking at its own edges.

"Heavyweight", released in December 2011, was its first and only single, and the title isn't the only nod to the ring: Canadian heavyweight George Chuvalo is on the cover, and his voice turns up in the closing track, "Mettle". It debuted at No. 9 in Canada. It was also the end of an era: Taggart left in June 2014, and fans waited nearly six years for the next album, Somethingness, in 2018.

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