Disintegration

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<b>100 Best Albums</b> <i>The Head on the Door</i> represented The Cure’s first big breakthrough: Buoyed by bona fide pop melodie, the 1985 album marked a definitive break with the claustrophobic intensity of the goth icons’ early-’80s run. Four years later, <i>Disintegration</i> would enlarge their vision to stadium-sized proportion, confirming The Cure’s status as alt-rock titan. Where <i>Disintegration</i>’s predecessor, 1987’s giddy <i>Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me</i>, swung wildly between opposing feeling, <i>Disintegration</i> is a deep dive into a singular mood: dreamy, wistful, and deeply melancholy, imbued with all the drama of standing at the railing of a rain-slicked ship as it sails away and gazing at the lover left behind. <i>Disintegration</i> fully sharpened The Cure’s pop instincts: “Pictures of You,” “Lovesong,” and “Fascination Street” are as immediate and indelible as anything in their catalog. But the band have tempered their emotion, so that even the major-key tonalities of a track like “Plainsong” aren’t as blindingly bright as on the previous album; they’re a deeper, richer hue, like beams of sunlight penetrating aquamarine depth. .

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