Existential meditations on the passing of time, eerie guitar sounds,  Simon Gallup’s crisp bass lines coated in hazy synths and piano passages  that sound as if they were played by ghosts in a haunted house. In a  clear departure from the still somewhat punk-rocky vibe of their debut, Seventeen Seconds slowly arrives at the kind of sound The Cure  eventually became famous.

One that combines the dire and despair of  human experience with a pinch of cheeky playfulness. Even though people  associate them with all things dark and bleak, they are at the same time  a cheerful band, in a wonderfully bizarre way. That undoubtedly has got  to do with some of the biggest hits they went on to produce and the  aesthetics they adapted as a means of sticking a middle finger in the  faces of everyone who pigeon-holed them as gruff and drab. But if you  have the advantage of knowing what will come, you can foresee some of  that in their earlier work already.

“It’s not a case of doing what’s right  It’s just the way I feel that matters  Tell me I’m wrong, I don’t really care.”  [Play for Today] - The Cure

"Again and again and again and again and again"  - A Forest (The Cure)

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Date de publication : 21/10/2020 à 05:50:18