The Cure
Kiss me Kiss me Kiss me

THE REVIEW

This Album is a breathtaking force of nature, with melodies that on one hand embody a chilling and mysterious hypothermic glacial stillness of an iceberg, and on the other hand, melodies that embody the incandescent, erupting core of destructive lava from a volcano that has never slept.

On the cover, the fiery red luscious lips are ready to kiss your heart, and the stared eye that penetrates your soul. And he, Robert Smith, champion mentor of troubled and lost souls in the depths of this life, an enchanting sprite of real and tangible fairy tales who this time grants open ground to the sharing of musical ideas of the whole group and the creation of this colorful naïf, temporarily leaving aside previous otherworldly gloom and giving space to chance and the vastness of exploratory inspiration, jazz, psychedelic, rock, and dark, when you listen to the tracks, you're catapulted beyond the mind, the substance of this Album is given by the effect of penetration into the intimate, an intense journey between pleasure and a consuming sadness, emotionally distorted and disjointed, texts that speak of emotional life, love, sex, betrayals, breakups, rebirths, and paranoid depressions that capture endless pleas for hugs up to touching all dimensions of love.

It is a magic that leaves you speechless without disappointing you for even a moment. There are eighteen tracks to go through in a captivating unknown...- “The Kiss” rock passionately scratching - “Catch” pop of joyful carefreeness - “Torture” The Cure’s soul - “If Only Tonight We Could Sleep” spontaneously hypnotic dark-oriental sound, balanced and deep - “Why Can’t Be You?” main track of the whole Album, brilliant, energetic to the max, the video is also great - “How Beautiful You Are” a day of embarrassing memories of the first heartbeats - “Snakepit” dark, murky, anguishing, harrowing - “Hey You!!!” the only track that was excluded from the cd- “Just Like Heaven” a friendly dazzling embrace - “All I Want” an exhausted, tortured and suffered passion, a fight to the extreme - “Hot Hot Hot!!!” naive and childish - “One More Time” a poignant plea and humiliating begging for a reason or a single word denied - “Like Cockatoos” a succession of daily paranoia - “Icing Sugar” one of the tracks that drives me the craziest, it is feline and tearing, it is a vital scream of infinite joy, the desire to fight to the end - “The Perfect Girl” funny, a look at the crowd around you and feeling so evasive and uncommon - “A Thousand Hours” the love held tight in the palm of your hand that reaches to the chest, the impossible desire to see again and talk to those who are no longer in this earthly life - “Shiver And Shake” schizophrenic and charismatic - “Fight” a scream-ending, fantastic track, a hymn to love, loving yourself to know how to love others and all that is lovable.

Kiss me Kiss me Kiss me, is an Album that makes you understand that nothing is impossible, that wanting is power, it's a sort of homework, it helps the will to react to all that makes you suffer and annihilates your spirit, it allows you to find an alternative on your own, a way out, a ray of sunshine to keep walking.