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The Cure - The Cure
Let’s get straight to the point; this isn’t a classic Cure album. What it is though is an astounding example of a band making some very good music despite being about twenty five years (it’s just me guessing here, it might be more) into their career. And for all their alternative acclaim and the more difficult moments they’ve had in the past The Cure have also always been a pop band. Twisted gothic pop, but pop nonetheless. And there’s some more of it here. It sounds quite a lot like the tracks that Robert Smith collaborated with Blink 182 for their latest album at times, just better. And their we hit the essence of this album, for all the times their name has been dropped in recent years by trendy new bands, The Cure were doing it first and are still doing it best. The influence of nu-metal mogul Ross Robinson can be heard here but thankfully Robert Smith seems to have kept a decent amount of creative control and there aren’t any guest appearances by Fred Durst, who seems to have managed to get just about everywhere else. There are a few really great songs on here which you should try and hear even if you don’t want to get the album itself, tracks like Us Or Them, alt.end and the epic The Promise. All show The Cure pretty much at the top of their angsty game and there is also one of the most brilliantly stupid uses of parenthesis in a song title in the form of (I Don’t Know What’s Going) On. Conclusion then? It’s good, not perfect, but a damn sight better than most bands out there.
8 out of 10