The Glove
Blue Sunshine

THE REVIEW

… … … Impossible to forget … …  

We are in 1983, Robert Smith (The Cure) and Steve Severin (Siouxsie and the Banshees) under the name of GLOVE decided to create a project giving a name to this unique creature that came to light…. “Blue Sunshine”, also because Robert was tied to the record label which prevented him from being able to concretely sing with a band other than The Cure, but it was done anyway, that’s how it was and that’s how it went! Robert will appear as a voice only on two tracks, “Mr. Alphabet Says” (one of the most beautiful of the album) and “Perfect Murder”, and he was entrusted with production, direction and the legendary guitar, with Steve the rest, as well as arrangements, production and direction. For the role of female voice in all the other tracks, it was given to Jeanette Landray (dancer and impromptu singer - what a bunch of madmen, but great ones). An excellent track is also “Sex Eye Make Up”. You might say, what kind of Album is this? The answer ….

It is a nightmare, difficult to review, to listen to, to interpret, etc., etc., but believe me, it's worth it, I couldn't leave it in the shadow of memories. It’s a dark-psychedelic album; when you listen to it, without knowing neither the plot nor the reason, you immediately perceive a kind of uneasiness and despair that is deliberately desired and inflicted, more simply imposed with specific intention, that is, pain by will, with all the irony of fate, highlighted. It is disturbing and anguishing, but it is so calibrated and captivating that, once listened to and listened to again and again, it highlights this parenthesis of experience desired by Robert and Steve, which from an initial experiment will lead to a result, I would say, surprising, a slow, hypnotic, transcendental, an eros suffocated by pathos, an infernal cauldron in the most total oblivion, the true hell, or Dantean purgatory.

Both explore this eclectic world, still mysterious to them, for what concerned the present Cure or Siouxie lines, but if you know both genres and mix them, think of what explosion could come out. The lyrics summarize the contents, in fact in this nightmare they talk about orgies, sex, lsd drugs, death, murders, funerals, paranoia, which they themselves say they have crossed by abusing them (I find it hard to doubt it). Album full of drums, synthesizers, electronic percussions, keyboards, and guitars, very instrumental, all intelligently calibrated which generates a whole, it seems absurd to say it, but pleasant. In the '80s it is true that everything was born, but this Album was shocking!. The result can be difficult to assess, but if you have delved deeply into these groups and know their original entity, then it can be said that this parenthesis was strong!

Two great artists have explored unexplored areas exposing their most hidden schizophrenia, they had fun!, before returning to their respective legendary groups. And curiosity becomes the desire to listen … …