Faith
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Faith
Faith is the third studio album by British alternative rock band the Cure, released on 14 April 1981 by record label Fiction. Preceded by the single “Primary”, the album was a commercial success in the UK, peaking at number 14 and staying in the albums chart for 8 weeks. It was mostly well received by critics. Faith saw the Cure continuing in the gloomy vein of 1980’s Seventeen Seconds, which would conclude with the band’s next album, Pornography.-Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
. . . the thrill here is hearing the Cure shape up into the singular band that trailed on through the next couple of decades.
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Everything Gone Green
Faith is an album without filler, a true classic of its type and genre, a breakthrough of sorts, even though commercial/mainstream success on a global scale (not to mention bouts of self-parody) was still a few years away yet for Robert Smith & co.
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A Pop Life
I still think this album is stunningly beautiful, atmospheric and emotional.
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AllMusic
A depressing record, certainly, but also one of the most underrated and beautiful albums the Cure put together.
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Head Heritage
Faith came before (Pornography), and is merely depressive but exceptionally realised.
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Treble
The atmospheric pieces of Faith produce cavernous echoes, strong funky beats countered by minimalist drum rolls, and spacious arrangements that spread mesas of sound waves across wide melodic fields.
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PopMatters
Faith continues the stark approach adopted for Seventeen Seconds, but the mood is wholly different. Instead of spectral isolation and paranoia, Faith delivers spikes of anger in the midst of an ocean of woe.
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Cerebral
Faith, in a sense, could be considered a concept album. It focuses on the motif of faith as both a religious and personal construct.
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Rolling Stone.de
On Faith, the trio's shrunken The Cure sounded a monochromatic gray-in-gray world in which time seems to freeze. Especially with the compact cast of Smith, Gallup, Tolhurst, "Faith" is one of the band's most convincing records.
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George Starostin's Reviews
I'm still not sure if the few really good songs on here could have worked better on a compilation, because Faith is a well-put together mood piece in its essence, but that doesn't really guarantee the album an ultra-high rating.
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Mark Prindle
Lonely, cold, upbeat, even angry . . . , these eight tracks are among the finest they've ever done.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
. . . 'Faith' forms a trilogy of records that helped seal the Cure's reputation as gloomy, black-clad artsy post-punks. The songs are mood-building set pieces, . . . .
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Hard Rock
. . . The Cure would continue to evolve but Faith offers the same experience as Unknown Pleasures and stands as one of post-punk’s most significant moments and the definitive template for what goth music would become.
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Opus Zine
As far as the Cure’s darker material goes, Faith is an album that often gets overshadowed by Pornography, but I’ve always found it the more affecting of the two.
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F Newsmagazine
Faith, the band’s effort from 1981, captures the Cure midway between grade school and goth — after the sinister pulse of Seventeen Seconds but before the crushing assault of Pornography.
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Virgins and Philistines
Faith could be considered as the first The Cure album where one can find their very personal atmosphere and overall themes.
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storiadellamusica.it
An extremely gaunt and essential geometry constantly characterizes Faith's songs: there are few striking gestures and rhythms of a sensational monotony. Yet the result is magical.
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The Morning News
Faith epitomizes that early, depressive era of the Cure—and reaches such spectacularly low emotional depths that you’ll wonder how they got out of the mixing room without hanging themselves on the tapes.
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Sanson David
. . . we can consider Faith , intermediate step, as the album of sadness. At the time of the recording, the group has just been tested by the death of several of his relatives, the incurable disease of the mother of Tolhurst, and this is probably what led Robert Smith to take a close interest to the question of faith, this question that will give its title to the disc.
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