The Cure (album)
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The Cure (album)
The Cure is the twelfth studio album by British alternative rock band the Cure. The album was released on 29 June 2004 by record label Geffen, and promoted with the single "The End of the World". The album was entirely produced by American producer Ross Robinson, known for his work with bands like Korn, Slipknot, and Limp Bizkit.-Wikipedia
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NME
September 12, 2005. ‘The Cure’ is not an easy album to love. It’s oppressive and relentless at times, it never, not once, lets you off the hook without a fight. But it shows a band on the verge of a whole new future.
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Slant Magazine
July 20, 2004. While these new songs form a cohesive whole and do no damage to The Cure’s legacy, they don’t bring anything new to the party either. Without the odd bursts of light that Smith is more than capable of, The Cure remains cloaked in shadow.
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PopMatters
March 27, 2016. The Cure has moments that work, just not enough of them. Some of the songs may have turned out better with different arrangements and mixes. It seems that Ross Robinson cheerily led Robert Smith and company into a ghastly misfire with this one. Robinson didn't understand the Cure, and it shows.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
December 14, 2018. It's overlong, and it's kind of hard to get through, but 'The Cure' offers a somewhat new perspective on a band that had recently passed the quarter-century mark of their career.
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Rolling Stone
July 8, 2004. The Cure are on a roll these days, and the new album is their most adventurous and passionate since Disintegration.
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OMH
June 28, 2004. With this album, The Cure have most definitely returned to form. Swirling, seemingly freeform (if it were not for the sheer quality of the musical execution) melodies meld into tunes and choruses with hooks to catch the most unwary of listeners, all overlaid by the distinctive, plaintive vocals of Mr Robert Smith.
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Mark's Record Reviews
This is exactly the direction I was hoping The Cure might take at this aging point in their elderly career. Not only is it stylistically diverse and full of awesome young-Cure energy, but the production is aphotic (dark), atramentous (dark), caliginous (dark), crepuscular (not sure what that one means), stygian (crepuscular), tenebrous (caligula) and filled up to the shitbowl of your ears with all sorts of odd bass/treble frequencies, cryptic noises and echo/flange/phase/distortion effects.
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AllMusic
. . . the Cure have become journeymen, for better and worse, turning out well-crafted music that's easy to enjoy yet not all that compelling either. It's not a fatal flaw, since the album is a satisfying listen and there's also a certain charm in hearing a Cure that's so comfortable in its own skin, but it's the kind of record that sits on the shelves of die-hard fans, only occasionally making its way to the stereo.
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George Starostin's Reviews
The Cure is very painfully an album of somebody who has run out of everything it's possible to run out of. Yes, there also exist versions of this album that have more songs on it. No, I'm not planning on getting them. I want this to be the end.
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Adrian's Album Reviews
November 23, 2008. Ultimately this guitar heavy Cure album produced by a metal producer simply gets rather tiresome somewhere shortly into the second half. As for the eleven minute 'The Promise', well, impressive as it sounds, I can still live without it.
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Hard Rock
The album makes a strong case for The Cure’s influence on certain elements of nu-metal which I missed while avoiding the genre as much as possible at the end of the century. Bizkit’s magnum crapus “Break Stuff” opens with the line “It’s just one of those days where you don’t want to wake-up” which probably aligns emotionally with most of Robert Smith’s thoughts over morning coffee.
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Virgins and Philistines
February 11, 2017. Maybe not the record I will spontaneously listen to very frequently but I really enjoyed (re)discovering it again.
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OoCities
Much like U2, this more-than-serviceable if not exactly ground breaking product is more than can be reasonably expected after 25 years of fairly consistent (and often outstanding) quality. Musically speaking, there's precious little resting on laurels here; long may The Cure run.
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Punknews.org
July 2, 2004. Some of the songs on this new band's new album are very good, however, many are simply mediocre. . . . Unfortunately, the whole album seems to be this way; it's divided between the very good songs and the very boring songs. The good does outweigh the bad, but not by much.
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Robert Christgau
The Cure [Geffen, 2004] Dud.
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