Despite the studio’s vibe of doom and Smith’s isolation, other band members did not take the sessions' somber climate too seriously. For example, a newspaper article about two New Zealand teenagers who had recently committed suicide while listening to the band’s music was kept in the studio as a “tragic, but… grimly funny” conversation piece, and a fire in one of the studio bedrooms nearly destroyed the only copies of Smith’s lyrics. ![]() The studio itself was a morbid scene, also contributing to the somber mood of the album. Smith’s depression and return to hallucinogenic drug use at the time led to an intentionally unpleasant environment in the studio where input from other members was generally not offered or welcome. Originally conceived as an intentionally depressing, introspective solo project inspired by a fear of turning thirty years old, band leader Robert Smith eventually brought lyrics and song ideas to the band where it became a group effort, with members bringing in demos and rating them, some of them eventually ending up on the album or as B-sides. Unlike most Cure albums, Disintegration is a pre-conceived group of Smith’s autobiographical songs that uniformly express one particular mood – gloom, yet stopping just short of communicating total despair like Pornography and Faith. The album remains their biggest-selling release to date. It is considered the band’s magnum opus and is very highly-regarded by critics, fans and fictional characters alike. ![]() ![]() The darkest funeral dirge sounds almost peppy compared to the goth apocalypse of the Cure‘s Disintegration, a 1989 album completed under such fraught circumstances that frontman Robert Smith seriously wondered if it would be the band’s last.ĭisintegration is British alternative rock band The Cure’s eighth studio album.
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