It’s monolithic, and most of the songs work the same way. It’s not a record for the dead-inside: Get far enough into this album, and I will almost guarantee you will feel some shit. It’s muscular (like on the title track), wistful (“Pictures of You”), ghostly (“Closedown”), seething (“Fascination Street”), and yeah, morose, but what’s striking is how each of those qualities can reach really, really far into your gut. 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.
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A whole lot of this album’s appeal is that it’s comforting, practically womblike-big, warm, slow, full of beauty and melody and even joy. If you want to be crushingly depressed with Disintegration, or frustrated, or self-loathing, it’ll embrace you right back. This is the thing: The album has a reputation as some huge, dark, crushingly depressive experience. “I will always love you,” it keeps promising-not the way you sing that in a giddy love song, but like it’s a grave, solemn, bloody commitment. It’s not an emo whine, and it’s not a big miserablist mope, either one of its most popular tracks, “Lovesong,” was written by Smith as a wedding present for his wife. And yet Disintegration is not a very teenagey album. It’s no wonder this was meaningful to a lot of teenagers: The sheer emotional grandeur of tracks like that opener, “Plainsong,” make a great match for the feeling that everything in your life is all-consumingly important, whether it’s your all-consuming sadness, joy, longing, or whatever.
You can sense that focus straight from the first minute, during which some wind chimes knock around in an empty void, and then the band bursts out with one of the most overwhelmingly grand openings I’ve ever heard on a pop record-a slow-motion, radiant synth figure of such scale that Sofia Coppola has plausibly used it to soundtrack the coronation of Louis XVI.
If Kiss Me is a crowded, teeming city to explore, listening to Disintegration is more like standing in the middle of some vast, empty space-the kind of ocean or plain where you can see the horizon in all directions. They’d always been good at this kind of album, too. Disintegration does not “scatter.” It’s a single, grand, dense, continual, epic trip into core stuff the Cure did well. The same went for Standing on a Beach / Staring at the Sea, a collection of singles stretching from 1978 to 1985, that was critical to introducing this band to North Americans.īut mostly there was Disintegration: the record where Robert Smith approached turning 30, got engaged and then married, got annoyed with the way his band was working, and went off by himself to write something deep and serious. This is something the band always did well: listening to their “many moods” pop records is like exploring a new city, where every storefront and side street offers something unique. There was Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, a 1987 double album that scatters in a lot of different directions. You could say-again, from an American perspective-that it started with two things.
So - unless you have some disposable income laying around (or a surplus of Qantas Airlines points) - we'll have to wait for some US dates to be announced. Our Reflections shows in 2011 were truly memorable experiences, and with the excitement surrounding those early album performances in mind, we are more than delighted to be announcing our return in May 2019 to present the world premiere of Disintegration – 30th Anniversary.”
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The band will be celebrating that landmark by playing it live in full at four shows, as part of Sydney, Australia’s Vivid LIVE festival series on May 24, 25, 27 & 28 at the Sydney Opera House.Īccording to lead singer Robert Smith - “Vivid LIVE is a wonderful international event. The bad news - for those of us fans in the United States - is that these shows are in Austrailia. They have announced that they will be playing the record in full. yet )Īnd in honor of it being the 30th Anniversary year of the release of Disintegration (their best record?) They will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 29th. 2019 is shaping up to be a good year for fans of The Cure.
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