The Cure

With new bands everywhere biting their steez from the Cure, O.G. Robert Smith returns for the big payback. Except here, he doesn't go for easy retro-Eighties chic -- instead, he turns up the guitars and wails in the sumptuous bathos of gems such as "Anniversary" and "Before Three." Just like heaven!

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