release date: Apr. 21, 1992
format: cd
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,08]
producer: David M. Allen, Robert Smith
label: Fiction Records - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: 2. "High" (3 / 5) - 7. "Friday I'm in Love" (4 / 5) - 9. "A Letter to Elise" (3 / 5) - 10. "Cut" (3 / 5)
9th studio album by The Cure. After the exclusion of co-founder Lol Tolhurst and after Roger O'Donnell had decided to leave the band after only two years, they were in need of a new member, and Perry Bamonte who plays 6-string bass, guitar, and keyboards became official member of the band. Apart from that, The band plays in their usual synth pop dream pop and alt. rock combination with focus on keyboards and a heavy spacial sound. I didn't pay the album much attention back then, and have only purchased the album for digital download after 2010, mostly because I like the hit single "Friday, I'm in Love", which isn't enough to raise much over a mediocre album despite that I find it a bit more interesting as a whole compared to Disintegration (1989).
[ allmusic.com 2,5 / 5, Rolling Stone 4 / 5 stars ]
