![]() ![]() The song is laden with sweeping and epic musical movements which bring about the beginning of this journey, letting us know we are in for more than the average listen, as is proved viaÂ*"Pictures Of You".Â*Simplistic guitar, bass, drums and the ever present synths are swathed with so much melancholy and longing that the song induces nostalgia in the listener just as Smith emotes it himself like the cold if you were dead", laughing at the hyperbole connection between leaving your twenties behind and it being the signifier of creative and emotional death. "And it's so cold it's like the cold if you were dead" And then you smiled for a second."Ī conversation between two lovers, both facing their first brush with their own mortality? Both reaching that point when youth was yesterday and middle-age is just around the corner a wry smile appearing at the almost cliched ". "And the wind is blowing like it's the end of the world" you saidÂ* ""I think it's dark and it looks like rain" you saidÂ* Or perhaps it's just The Cure's ability to dress strong ideas with layers upon layers of atmosphere.ĪsÂ*the album begins, we are wrapped up tightly within the opening track's - "Plainsong" - expectant synths and heartbreaking guitar work as Smith sings in a ghostly voice Perhaps this is because the album feels less like a slow decaying, and more like a soul spreading out as it fades and laying it's darkest and purest aspects bare. However, although the album's title does suggest a mournful tone - and this would be a correct assumption for parts of the whole - there is an undeniable beauty to be found within it's 12 songs. This is why the band's influential, and arguably best, album is such a sprawling, Â*emotional and layered affair a sonic interpretation of mortality, love, lust, dreams and the slow deterioration of a person's body and mind. ![]() ![]() Robert Smith - vocalist, guitarist and key songwriter for The Cure - was at a stage in his life, when turning thirty, in which aging represented a "Constant feeling of falling apart, which I'm sure everyone feels" as he put so himself whilst recording "Disintegration". At first it means little or nothing to a person, then it becomes all important Â*as that person aches to reach certain milestone ages, later it signifies a more dreaded fact of life - the ending of it - and eventually it becomes what it truly is a measuring tool to calculate the amount of time one has spent on this tiny planet and how long they have left. ![]()
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