40 Years of the Cure’s First True Surrealist Pop Album
Forty-year-old The Head on the Door propelled the Cure toward arena stature with its musical cohesion and a collection of hallucinatory yet accessible songs.
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The 25 Best Rock Albums of 2024
As always, rock was a guitar-led extravaganza in 2024 with artists drawing from an ever-widening musical well. These are the 25 best rock albums of the year.
The Cure Lament Aging and Death, Yet Find New Vitality
The Cure’s Songs of a Lost World is a cohesive collection that skews dark, cinematic, meditative exploration of loss in all its forms.
20 Overlooked 1980s Music Videos
From major artists like the Clash and David Bowie to less famous brethren like Haysi Fantayzee and Grandmaster Caz, these are overlooked videos from the 1980s.
The Cure’s Long-Awaited New Single “Alone” Is a Celestial Lament
“Alone” is one of the most devastating songs in the Cure’s entire catalogue, evoking an agonizing sense of loss that can deeply resonate with many listeners.
The 50 Best Post-Punk Albums Ever
Explore 50 of the most brilliant, impactful, innovative, and controversial albums of the classic post-punk era, the reverberations of which will be felt for generations.
Gothic Tribes: The Cure’s Lol Tolhurst Explores Pop Music’s Dark Artists
Tolhurst’s goth music history intimately details the mercurial movement, interweaving personal memories and descriptions of the “architects of darkness”.
The Cure’s ‘Wild Mood Swings’ Indulges the Glories of Genre-Jumping
The Cure’s ebulliently eclectic masterpiece ‘Wild Mood Swings’ is misguidedly maligned. What is more tantalizing than music that exalts eclecticism to such stupefying heights?
The Cure’s Genre-Defining and Genre-Defying ‘Faith’ 40 Years On
The Cure’s Faith–released 40 years ago this April–comes from a haunted, solipsistic place and it seduces you into its tormented world.
The 10 Best Love Songs of The Cure
From mournful laments to giddy, knees-up swoons and everything in between, these are the 10 best love songs from post-punk’s most capable romantics, The Cure.
The Cure: Ranking the Albums From 13 to 1
Just about every album by the Cure is worth picking up as even those ranked lowest boast worthwhile moments. Here are their albums presented from worst to best.
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The Cure’s ‘Seaside’ Cure for Sheltering at Home
In these times of pandemic turmoil and outright trauma, what better match does the tempestuous human soul have than the sea? And what better lyricist than the Cure's Robert Smith, who twins the wrath (or sadness) of the sea with similar human emotions?