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- Summary: Robert Smith declared 'Bloodflowers' to be the final release from The Cure. It wasn't, of course, but it does in theory complete a trilogy that began with 'Pornography' and 'Disintegration.'
- Record Label: Elektra/Asylum
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
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Top Track
Out Of This World | |
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When we look back at it all, As I know we will You and me, wide-eyed I wonder will we really remember How it feels to be this alive And I know we... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 18
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Mixed: 4 out of 18
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Negative: 2 out of 18
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One of the band's most affecting works.
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This is classic Cure music, straight up (or should that be straight down?): lengthy songs (most more than five minutes) with plenty of cold, alternately chiming and grinding guitars, fluttering keyboards and, of course, Smith's mournful yowl, which hasn't sounded this intense since the The Top's "Shake Dog Shake" in 1984.
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Bloodflowers is a marvel. It has something to say, and it delivers that message with passion.
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Even as they approach epic length, the songs remain beautiful, dramatic, and above all else simple.
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Gone are the ill-advised brass and bare-faced chart aspirations of 1996's awful 'Wild Mood Swings', as are the flippant pop songs that commercialised The Cure in the mid-1980s. What we are left with is the dark, dense core of Smith's psyche, and a reminder that The Cure are at their fearsome best when creating soundscapes awash with uncertainty and dread.
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Wisely, Bloodflowers is every crotchet a Cure album. True, there's no blatant hit single - one of those sudden shifts into gloriously barmy pop frenzy - but there's still ample compensation to be had...
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Many of the songs begin promisingly, with glowing guitar figures and plaintive synthesizer cascades, but these hints of beauty get lost in a morass of feedback and ill-defined arrangements.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 23 out of 26
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Mixed: 1 out of 26
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Negative: 2 out of 26
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May 10, 2011
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TylerPDec 15, 2006
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TeemuM.Aug 28, 2001Snifff.... Gooodd..... aaahhh
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Jul 21, 2021
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JohannesL.Mar 27, 2002The Cure are back, and what a come-back!
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May 21, 2017
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SteveH.Sep 8, 2002
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