This album is not only melodic to the point of beautiful, Robert Smith is the Shakespeare of our time. Awesome CD!

It's been 1.5 years now, and it still seems totally fresh and powerful - easily the best fuckin' Cure album ever (and I have them all)!! If Bob finishes on this one, who could complain, but what would he do then?? Just one thing - unfortunately this album just didn't rate in Britain, and we didn't get a tour. A classic album, but maybe too late to catch our disappearing fan base. Anyway, I'm Scottish and I still fuckin' love that album!!!… Expand

This is the worst album they have put out. It is slow and lacks enthuisiasm. I got the feeling the band needed to put this album out to make money at the expense (no pun) of creativity.

While Bloodflowers doesn't tread huge amounts of new ground for The Cure, its a development of Disintegration and Wish that is as fantastic as most of their work. It builds up tonnes of atmosphere, Smith's voice is still as good as it was 20 years before. Its a brilliant, relaxing and ultimately sad album, which doesn't do much to suprise but is a solid, light affair that comes close to previous greats like Disintegration.… Expand

No my friends, this is most definitely NOT a masterpiece on par with "Disintegration," and it is most definitely NOT their worst album either ("Wild Mood Swings" gets my vote for that). It's just The Cure doing Cure-esque songs with dense Cure production. No alarms and no surprises. Listenable from beginning to end as well as forgettable. For dedicated fans or completists only.

The Cure are back, and what a come-back!

Amazing

this is the best set of sad songs ever ,thank you robert

Snifff.... Gooodd..... aaahhh

Bloodflowers is a unique masterpiece. Slow and unbelievably beautiful songs. This is a Cure album to sink your teeth into - there's a lot of lyrical and musical depth, even for this band. After a few listens, I was wishing the album was slower so that the songs would last longer. Absolutely stunning. stephen

Very even and deliberate album.

Maybe its because I'm turning 40 this year and feel like "nothing is new", I'm not sure...but BF is far superior to Disintegration, true genius.

A wonderfull album by the goth/rock masters!!!

Truly this is one of the most beautiful albums The Cure have ever produced. It combines the simple instruments and arranges them in such a way to create something complex and full. Many will frown upon this album - do not listen to them, listen to the album. It captures a curtian emotion that not everyone can grasp. It does not sound like the typical Cure albums. It is mature, more developed.

Closer to a ten than a nine, Bloodflowers is an excellent album. While it's highs are never as high as those found on Disintegration ("Disintegration", "The Same Deep Water As You", "Plainsong", "Pictures Of You"), it also lacks Disintegration's lows (the out-of-place "Lovesong" and "Lullaby"). A very sold listen with only one real flaw: Watching Me Fall is perhaps a minute or two too long. The title track is one of my favourite Cure songs of all time -- and that, my friends, is saying something.… Expand

fuck the Cure! They've lost it! Robert Smith looks like the goth Elvis and like Elvis circa the mid 70s he's not even a shadow of what he used to be. Not that they were all that great to begin with. If it weren't for the Scottish and the shoegazers the 80s would have been disasterious.

The first track ("Out of This World") is brilliant, rolling in on strident acoustic strumming, brushed drums, and later dancing into the sky on a delerious spill of plinking piano notes. An echo loop spins menacingly in the background, fading in and out. This song captures whimsy, nostalgia, and aching sadness in a brew characteristic of The Cure. The album carries on in a typical Cure-ish sort of a way. Robert Smith's voice equips a range of reverb effects, reflected among cascading guitar melodies and a grand, celestial bass. These songs are fine places to get lost. But the album falters when it feels too automatic. The guitar solos in "Where the Birds Always Sing" and "The Last Day of Summer" sound interchangeable, and certain guitar hooks are by now so familiar that they fail to register. Still, Bloodflowers reasserts The Cure's identity and proves Robert Smith's continuted potency as a song writer. Let us hope that with renewed spirits, The Cure will be more daring next time.… Expand

This Album has to be one of the greatest Cure albums to date, second only to Disintegration. The songs are deeply moving and talk of a persons life when there was happiness and then have it suddenly disappear. I couldn't have asked for anything better than this album as a follow-up to Disintegration. Let's hope that this isn't the last Cure album and that the band continues.

This album is the best, with magnificent guitar sounds and Robert Smith's spectacular lyrics to describing a life, love, story, and obseesion.

Would have been the perfect album to end their career with but, we're all human so they went further than this. This is one of the best productions I've ever heard and I can't stop listening to it. Easily some of Smith's best lyrics and the bands most expansive arrangements since Disintegration.