Faith - The Cure

Faith is the second of a trilogy of albums released by The Cure in the early 1980's that had a distinct musical style. It was preceded by the minimalist musicianship found on Seventeen Seconds and was succeeded by the black hole like depression of Pornography. Early Cure isn't about pop melodies or sweeping guitars, it's about creating a downbeat mood, perhaps a mood that could be called both gothic and haunting, yet with its feet stuck well within the boundaries of popular music. The entire album is very bass orientated, and most of the songs revolve around a tempo set by the bass guitar, the exception being the keyboard heavy middle section of the LP. More ...  Read the complete review

In 1981 The Cure released their third album "Faith" following on from the release of their two previous albums "Three Imaginary Boys" and "Seventeen Seconds" in 1979 and 1980 respectively. In 2005 the Faith album was re-issued in a digitally re-mastered deluxe edition version. This is a two CD pack, which as well as containing all of the tracks on the original vinyl album on disc one, also featured a previously unreleased song on this first disc called "Carnage Visors" plus a non-album single released around the same time called "Charlotte Sometimes", which appears on disc two. Disc two features ...  Read the complete review