Disintegration
Album | The Cure
Goth icons' career high point.
Even though the band was already a decade into an already impressive career when Disintegration was released in the spring of 1989, it remains The Cure's finest hour. A perfect balance of sanguine pop songs ("Lovesong," "Pictures of You"), icy post-punk ("Fascination Street," the chilling title track), and goth grandiosity ("Closedown," "Prayers For Rain"), Disintegration -- contrary to its title -- finally integrated both sides of Robert Smith's musical personality, fusing the depressive fatalism of Pornography and Seventeen Seconds to the pop-friendly accessibility of The Head On The Door and Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me. In 2010, Rhino Records gave Disintegration the deluxe reissue treatment: like the other reissues in the series, it comes with a disk of demos and outtakes, but the lavish triple-disc set also includes an excellent live recording of the band running through the entire album at London's Wembley Arena in 1990. The demos and offcuts will mostly be of interest to diehards, but the real gem in this package is the newly remastered sound of the album's original 12 tracks, which sound even bigger, deeper and more epic than before.
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