Bloodflowers
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Bloodflowers
Bloodflowers is the eleventh studio album by British alternative rock band The Cure, released in February 2000. The album is seen as a sombre return to form by critics.-Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
March 2, 2000. The latest, Bloodflowers, is half dismissible droning, an unforgivable ratio considering it’s only nine tracks long.
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Stereogum
f Wild Mood Swings was a failed attempt to channel the energy of Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Bloodflowers was a modestly successful attempt to recapture the stately gloom of Disintegration and Wish.
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Opus
February 14, 2004. Now that the Cure has “nothing left to burn,” this album is a reminder that no good thing can remain forever, and that we ought not to take them for granted while we have them around.
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NME
September 12, 2005. Smith has gone back to a template he devised long ago and has taken it to extremes, pushing into corners of disillusionment it never before quite reached. ‘Bloodflowers’ may not convert any new fans, but it will certainly not disappoint the old ones.
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AV Club - Music
February 15, 2000. Bloodflowers remains predictably dark, but the album has its bright qualities: The band has subtly integrated electronic elements, and Smith's songwriting is (relatively) less dirge-like than in the past.
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Punknews.org
November 1, 2011. . . . whether it was a sincere artistic effort or merely an advertising bullet point, the record remains a shining entry in the group's discography, and perhaps one of their most underrated.
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AllMusic
The album is certainly well made, and even enjoyable; however, its achievement is a bit hollow, since it never seems like Smith is pushing himself or the band. Nobody else can come close to capturing the Cure's graceful gloom, but it's hard to shake the suspicion that Bloodflowers could have been something grand if he had shaken up the formula slightly.
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The Harvard Crimson
March 3, 2000. Considering speculation that Bloodflowers may be the Cure's oft-threatened last album, it seems that this droning noise could possibly be the sound of ancient gothy New Wavers finally boring themselves to death.
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PopMatters
March 27, 2016. While it isn't their greatest work, there are indeed brilliant moments on Bloodflowers, and the tour in support of the album was outstanding.
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Curiouser & Curiouser
“Bloodflowers” is The Cure at its most musically mature. The subtle potency of “Bloodflowers” will elude the masses, but patient listeners will reap many rewards from this CD.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
December 14, 2018. . . . 'Bloodflowers' often comes off like it's trying a little too hard to sound like a Cure album. Not necessarily a bad thing, but there's not much originality here either.
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Adrian's Album Reviews
November 23, 2008. 'Bloodflowers' is an album almost bereft of genuine quality, an album without a real sense of purpose and lacking entirely in new ideas. Stylistically, it throws the Cure back more than a decade without introducing enough new elements to suggest this is a brave new beginning.
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Rolling Stone.de
February 15, 2015. When "Bloodflowers" hit stores in February 2000, the album seemed like proof to many: after the disappointing predecessor "Wild Mood Swings", The Cure once again recorded a classic.
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Metal.de
. . . THE CURE have still not dissolved and offer with this album to the listener one of her most ingenious works. No flamenco rhythms, no light pop food, but sadness in its most beautiful and thoughtful form .
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George Starostin's Reviews
. . . Bloodflowers is, and will remain, moderately awesome.
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Hard Rock
April 21, 2017. While it checks almost every box on the goth scorecard from slow building atmospheres to reverb drenched instruments that bounce around Robert Smith’s personal sarcophagus, there isn’t enough substance to live up to the two albums it supposedly brings to a conclusion.
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Mark's Record Reviews
Right now I'll tell you that this is a refreshing return to down and out depression - in a lot of ways, you can think of this as a spiritual followup to Disintegration. However, aside from a few really awesome tunes, the stuff in the middle kinda all runs together.
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laut.de
February 15, 2000. Overloaded and undecided: Has the fire already gone? If this really is the last record of the Cure, she is not exactly a worthy farewell present.
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One of Us
December 13, 2017. Maybe it’s possible that Bloodflowers, The Cure’s 2000 LP and, per Robert Smith, the end of a trilogy that began with Pornography and continued with Disintegration, is less a swan song and more of the meandering treatise you find when your prior formula’s brought great fame but there’s not much new left in the tank.
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OoCities
Indeed, when taken as a whole, Bloodflowers weaves a rather intoxicating spell, and though lines like "but the fire is almost out, and there's nothing left to burn" left many wondering whether this would be the last Cure album . . ., another one would be welcome by me, even if he is basically just repeating himself at this point.
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Robert Christgau
Bloodflowers [Fiction/Elektra, 2000] Dud.
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Ink 19
March 15, 2003. In 2000, Robert Smith, the only remaining original member of The Cure, released the incredibly fearful Bloodflowers. Robert was approaching his 40th birthday while working on Bloodflowers, and his apprehension to growing old runs rampant throughout the entire record.
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Storia Della Musica
. . . for the first time since "Three Imaginary Boys" the Cure did not extract any single; on the other hand the disc offers many new classics like the already mentioned "Out of This World" and "Maybe Someday" , the wonderful title track, the majestic "Watching Me Fall" with pleasantly electronic touches and characterized by a whispered but damn dramatic drama.
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Officially A Yuppie
October 1, 2011. Bloodflowers seemed to be a much more welcomed return to form and what was to come for The Cure. . . . However, now if the record were to be released it would be considered some of the bands best in years.
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The Student Playlist
What is obvious, though, is how impressive Bloodflowers sounds, particularly in comparison to its immediate predecessor and the group’s comparatively barren Nineties, and how in undoubtedly helped them reconnect with their fans. Just don’t make it your entry point into their catalogue!
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Virgins and Philistines
“Bloodflowers” is indeed a very good album by The Cure with all the great things one likes to find in their albums (long songs, dark themes, great guitar playing) but something is missing probably on the melody side. Still better though than 90% of all music production.
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