Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Laurence Tolhurst: The Cure in the year of grace 1981. A dark, decadent, cryptic work. The essence of the Dark sound; eight suffocating tracks that leave no room to breathe. For me, the peak is reached in the two closing songs: "The Drowning Man" and "Faith". I've never heard anything so weighty, exhausting, and in some ways, challenging... but that ultimately has a liberating effect, with the final biting guitar and that bass... ABSOLUTE CATHARSIS...
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