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Music
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The Cure – the Cure
2004 Geffen/I Am Recordings 11 tracks
51 minutes
Remember on Bloodflowers
that song "39." It says "the flame has gone out" or something similar
to it. Well that is true in so many ways. If The Cure
is the new sound and direction they're taking, they have indeed put the
flame out on anything resembling the Cure up to 2000. The music is generic
& not much different than anything else you can hear on american corporate
rock radio. The mixing job is horrible, the sounds of the guitars/effects
are cheesy 90's metal/grunge sounding. The lyrics are tired. The
only thing that resembles the cure that had built a large cult like following
is Robert's vocals. At some points passionate. But mostly tired and mixed
too loudly (as I’ve mentioned before). A couple tracks sounds like it could
have been written by GNR after they've listened to the Cure. If you
like the Cure because they were a brilliant band that put out interesting
songs with depth, sometimes emotion & amazing layered keys, guitars
with cool melodic bass lines; you most definitely won't like this
disc because all of that is missing & replaced with generic guitar
chords, keyboards so far back into the mix you can't hear them & no
depth at all to any of the songs. "The End of the World" is the first
single & it sounds like a tired re-hashed version of "Mint Car" or
"Cut Here," the two most despised singles from this band, & that's
as close to the Cure as this album gets. It has more similarities
to 311 or other frat rock bands than anything the Cure has ever done. If
you thought Wild Mood Swings was a low point for the band,
it was a masterpiece in comparison.
Brendan Murray – Animation
2003 Naninani Recordings 4 tracks 29 minutes
This disc is nearly silent ambient, possibly
built from concrete or found sounds. It’s definitely
a background oriented disc & impossible to hear on headphones over
the voices of your co-workers. There’s something to it that reminds
me of the town of Aarhus. It’s soothing & I bet time travel sounds
like this.
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