THE CURE

Release Year: 2005
Artist Origin: ENG
Style: somber melancholic postpunk / gothic rock

until third longpay [1980] prompting the essential changes, The Cure were quite prosperous introducing few popular music market oriented hits, yet suddenly their postpunk initiative started to flow towards the establishing new wave movement, with darker issues becoming prevalent in lyrics, while honest and simple, yet damn infectious music turned melancholic direction, paving a straight way to fundamental pale-faced British phenomena; the sole A Forest is worth a million - even black metal audience throw the horns up while playing this genius song, while the entirety of compositions is imbued with subtle tension and quiet drama, where minimalist guitar motifs, ethereal keyboards, and static rhythms create an introspective dream world, revealing early Smith’s poetics of melancholy and existential solitude; recent European re-issue comes with a remastered sound