Bloodflowers - The Cure

There was a time when the Cure could fill stadiums with their quirky love songs and existential angst, and every other passer by on Camden High Street would look like the band's tousle-haired, lipstick smudged singer Robert Smith. But the world of pop is a fickle and transient place, and by the '90s the Cure were pretty much dismissed as has-beens, releasing as they were countless compilations and live albums while they struggled to come up with a studio album. And when that studio album finally emerged it was widely criticised for being a disappointing retread of past glories. I think the critics were a little too harsh on 'Wild Mood ...

Blood Flowers is very much old Cure - Advantages: Old Cure, Moody, Awesome Songs - Disadvantages: Last CD

I TRULY wanted to like this record. After all, the signs were good that Fat Boy Smith and his bunch of loonies were venturing back into the wasteland they wallowed in at their peak and did their best material in; they were taking their time with everything to make sure not one note was blemished, etc... They spent four friggin' years making this record, and being a HUGE Cure fan, I was waiting for something Smith was describing as a combination of the lush synthesizer arrangements of 'Disintegration' with the hopeless fury of 'Pornography'. What I got was something that sounded( at-best) like B-sides from 'Wish'( and even those were better ...