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The Cure's Robert Smith is a love cat with nine lives. He's the groovy big sister you always wished you had, a swirl of big, sticky hair and lipstick and New Wave angst. He still reigns as the coolest lesbian rock star of all time, even if he's technically a straight guy. The Cure are on a roll these days, and the new album is their most adventurous and passionate since Disintegration. "Before Three," "Lost" and "(I Don't Know What's Going) On . . ." are jaw-droppingly great hymns to romantic obsession -- the Cure's specialty. The first big surprise on The Cure is how loud and resonant the guitars are, with no neo-Eighties keyboards at all. The next big surprise is Smith's huge vocals -- he sounded wispy on the erratic Bloodflowers (2000), but he emotes live and direct here. People tend to associate Smith with adolescent gloom, but he's always sung smart adult love songs -- "The Lovecats," "Just Like Heaven" -- and he hits one of his all-time romantic peaks here, wailing the twisted devotion of "Before Three": "Whispering dreams, so fucked and high/It's hard to hold this night inside." It's the grooviest thing, it's a perfect dream.
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Track List
- Lost
- Labyrinth
- Before Three
- The End Of The World
- Anniversary
- Us or Them
- alt.end
- I Don't Know What's Going On
- Taking Off
- Never
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The Promise (track not available in Rhapsody)
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David92 writes:
the cure always gives brilliant material, this one is for me the best one in 10 years, wish its too pop fot the cure and lets not talk about wild mood swings, a failure, but this record has everything rock, poop, goth, only pure and needed cure!
May 24, 2008 20:23:20
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