Wild Mood Swings
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Wild Mood Swings
Wild Mood Swings is the 10th studio album by British alternative rock band the Cure, released on 7 May 1996 through record label Fiction. Wild Mood Swings charted at number nine in the UK Albums Chart, staying on chart for six weeks, and charted at number 12 in the US Billboard 200. Four singles were released from the album, the first being “The 13th”, released in April 1996, followed by “Mint Car” released in June, then “Strange Attraction” released in United States in October and finally “Gone!” released in Europe in December 1996.-Wikipedia
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Metro Weekly
October 16, 2013. “Wild Mood Swings” was a missed opportunity, and with the benefit of hindsight and a little revisionist history, it might have been a worthy follow-up to the mega-successful “Wish” instead of a commercial failure. Classic album revisited? Perhaps more accurate to say “potential classic album reinvented.”
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Diffuser.fm
May 7, 2016. But the running order is inconsistent at best. A languid jazziness permeates half the album, which rarely does the band any favors. Smith’s voice, without its customary backing, can come off cartoonish.
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Rolling Stone
February 2, 1998. On Wild Mood Swings, Smith seems too trapped within his own obsessions to know when he’s merely expressed them and when he’s transformed them into art. It can sometimes be a thin line, but Smith has walked it before with far more satisfying results.
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Houston Press
May 14, 2013. Cure albums are never song collections, they all flow, but Wild Mood Swings lives up to its name and never really manages to find its identity.
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AllMusic
Of course, the Cure haven't significantly changed their sound -- tinny synthesizers and guitar effects that haven't appeared on an album since 1988 are in abundance throughout the record -- but the variety of sounds and strength of performance offers enough surprises to make Wild Mood Swings more than just another Cure record.
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Treble Zine
June 15, 2016. To say that Wild Mood Swings is The Cure‘s worst album is neither controversial nor wrong, really.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
December 14, 2018. The Cure's 10th album sounds like kind of a mess because it was made under stormy conditions.
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Entertainment
May 10, 1996. It’s not all perkiness and positive vibes. But even the relatively downbeat numbers, like the aptly titled ”Numb” and the orchestrated mini-epic ”Bare,” fail to evoke any emotion more extreme than gentle melancholia.
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PopMatters
March 27, 2016. For every strong moment on Wild Mood Swings there is a corresponding weakness. The parts are there for Wild Mood Swings to have been a much better album. Unfortunately, the band glued the wrong pieces together, and it kinda just fell apart.
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George Starostin's Reviews
In any case, the worst thing about the album is the lack of density. Some of the songs almost sound folksy or "rootsy", if you get my meaning, and for The Cure, this is unbearable.
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Ryan Davey
June 22, 2018. Wild Mood Swings, finally released in 1996, was a better album than it’s given credit, yet after Disintegration and Wish it was a definite step down.
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Rolling Stone.de
May 27, 2016. The band's tenth studio album would probably end up in last place on every voting for Cure discography. Too colorful, to karnevalesk the song selection, these are common allegations.
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Toute Ouie
May 7, 2013. When it was released in 1996, Wild Mood Swings was down by critics and fans, . . . . Yet, 17 years later, we still see the cut firecracker on stage, and even if this album did not meet the expected success, the fact that the group still plays some of his titles on stage shows that it is an album quality. Some considered it too eclectic whereas for us it is precisely this eclecticism which brings all the coherence of this opus and it is for this reason that it is one of our favorites.
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Adrian's Album Reviews
The modern production touches such as they are, don't integrate well into the sound. Keyboards no longer organically create the bedrock of Cure songs, they are just superfluous icing on a not particularly tasty cake.
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