Disintegration

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The trick, I think, is how well it serves as a soundtrack to that feeling that everything around you is meaningful, whether it’s beautiful or horrible or sublime: This is an album for capital-R Romantics, not sulkers. It was around this time that a friend elsewhere in the room messaged me to declare Smith “an amazing performer”, an incongruous description given his minimal expression and movement generally. The SRC pressing without the gold promo stamping and this promo version both bear the exact same “DMM MASTERDISK” matrices. Robert Smith said in 2006, "It's so pitiful when 'goth' is still tagged onto the name the Cure", and added, "We're not categorisable. On 26 May, the Cure embarked on a 19-date summer festival tour of Europe, commencing at the Pinkpop Festival, joined by Reeves Gabrels on guitar.

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In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave Disintegration four-and-a-half out of five stars, and applauded the band by saying, "The Cure's gloomy soundscapes have rarely sounded so alluring [and] the songs– from the pulsating, ominous 'Fascination Street' to the eerie, string-laced 'Lullaby'– have rarely been so well-constructed and memorable. Smith and Gallup shared a fear of flight, and ultimately lamented the upcoming dates, wishing to reduce the number of concerts they booked. Meanwhile, a spin-off band comprising Smith, Tolhurst, Dempsey, Gallup, Hartley, and Thompson, with backing vocals from assorted family and friends and lead vocals provided by their local postman Frankie Bell, released a 7-inch single in December under the name Cult Hero. It was never a serious atmosphere in the studio, and when you think about the album and how dark it is, I’m sure people think we were sitting around slitting our wrists. In 1987, the Cure released the eclectic double album Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, which reached number six in the UK, the top 10 in several countries, [63] and was the band's first entry into the US top 40 at number 35; the album was also certified platinum in the US.Like most remasters these days, this one has to pump up the volume toward modern levels, which means smushing things together and making parts fight for space. Prayers for Rain", a depressing track (Raggett noted: "the phrase 'savage torpor' probably couldn't better be applied anywhere else than to this song") sees Thompson and Smith "treating their work to heavy-duty flanging, delay, backwards-run tapes and more to set the slow, moody crawl of the track.

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Pictures of You", while upbeat, contained poignant lyrics ("Screamed at the make-believe/Screamed at the sky/You finally found all your courage to let it all go") with a "two-chord cascade of synthesizer slabs, interweaving guitar and bass lines, passionate singing and romantic lyrics. Smith deliberately sought to record an album that was depressing, as it was a reflection of the despondency he felt at the time. Early in 1996, the Cure played festivals in South America, followed by a world tour in support of the album.An update was provided in May 2022, when Smith claimed that the album would be released prior to the band's European tour in October 2022. Smith's anguish prior to the recording of Disintegration gave way to the realisation on his 29th birthday that he would turn 30 in one year. Rolling Stone placed the record at number 326 on its 2003 list of the " 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", [47] maintaining the ranking in the 2012 update, [48] and raising it to number 116 in the 2020 reboot of the list.

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By the release of their debut album Three Imaginary Boy s in May that year, the band had truncated their name to The Cure.The Cure have released 13 studio albums, two EPs, and over 30 singles, and have sold over 30 million albums worldwide.