CD 4:13 Dream - CURE

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - 4:13 DREAM - CURE

-Fabricante :

Geffen

-Descripcion Original:

2008 release, the 13th studio longplayer from the legendary Goth rockers led by Robert Smith. Now down to a quartet (Smith, Simon Gallup, Porl Thompson and Jason Cooper), the band continue to musically evolve while dealing with subjects like relationships, the material world, politics and religion. The songs on 4:13 Dream are stripped down and in your face while also sounding very much like The Cure. Includes the singles The Only One, Freakshow, Sleep When Im Dead and The Perfect Boy. No one ever managed to nail aimless suburban alienation quite like the Cure, so sensitive yet so party-hearty, and 4:13 Dream, their thirteenth studio album and first in four years, lands in a musical landscape infested with their descendents. Yet Robert Smith and his old blokes can still show the young shavers how it’s done, even as they enter their fourth decade as a working band. The wistful yet ominous opener, Underneath the Stars, seems to slip towards Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here, making for a perfect exemplar of the Cure’s highly nuanced, yet undeniably commercial, English art-rock. The Only One seems to rework their own, twenty-year-old classic, Just Like Heaven, while the febrile scratchy funk of Switch sounds peculiarly contemporary right now. Their woozy Sirensong simply refuses to settle into predictablility, and even the lumbering and gloomy The Real Snow White sounds ready for arenas rather than confined spaces. Enjoyable throughout and often effortlessly commercial, 4:13 Dream should depress and impress many young people, especially some musicians who may now realise just how far they have to go to catch up. --Steve Jelbert About the Artist 20/10/08 The Cure Story continues... It all started in 1976 as Easy Cure, formed by Robert Smith (vocals, guitar) along with schoolmates Michael Dempsey (bass), Lol Tolhurst (drums) and local guitar hero Porl Thompson. They began writing and demoing their own songs almost immediately, playing throughout 1977 in Southern England to an ever growing army of fans. In 1978 the Easy was dropped, along with Porl, and an eager trio now known simply as The Cure were quickly signed to Chris Parrys new Fiction label. In May 1979 their debut album Three Imaginary Boys was released to great acclaim, and as the band toured extensively around the UK, the singles Boys Dont Cry and Jumping Someone Elses Train were released. Michael left the band at the end of the year, and Simon Gallup (bass) and Matthieu Hartley (keyboards) joined. In early 1980 the 4-piece Cure embarked on an exploration of the darker side of Roberts songwriting, and emerged with the minimalist classic Seventeen Seconds, along with their first bona-fide hit single A Forest. After an intense world tour Matthieu left the group, and in early 1981 the trio recorded an album of mournful atmospheric soundscapes entitled Faith, which included another successful single in Primary. The band then set out on a second global trek, named The Picture Tour, during which they released the non-album single Charlotte Sometimes. In 1982 The Cure went back into the studio, and their increasingly ugly fascination with despair and decay culminated in the unrelenting sonic attack of Pornography. An intensely volatile tour ensued, and the single The Hanging Garden was released just as Simon left the band. After pushing the limits of excess, Robert felt he had to change things, and did so by going pop again. Rejuvenated, the now 2-piece Cure released their first real dance single, the cheesy Lets Go To Bed, and during the making of the accompanying video forged a colorful and lasting relationship with director Tim Pope. The band continued into 1983 with the groovy electronic dance of The Walk, followed by the demented cartoon jazz of The Lovecats. In 1984 The Top was released, a strange hallucinogenic mix, which contained the infectiously psyche