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The Cure

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Rolling Stone (p.84) – 3.5 stars out of 5 — “[T]he album’s tension between masochistic experiment and big pop still blazes.” Entertainment Weekly (p.117) – “[T]his album of ultra-romantic synth dirges broke goths’ cold hearts and became the Cure’s biggest record.” — Grade: A CMJ (1/6/03, p.15) – Included in CMJ’s list of “Top 25 College Radio Albums of All Time” CMJ (1/5/04, p.26) – Ranked #1 in CMJ’s “Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1989” Billboard (p.33) – “The nuances that Robert Smith and David M. Allen lent the final production — warm tones, balanced tempos, cascading guitars — saved the album’s comforting gloom from becoming innocuous.” Mojo (Publisher) (p.110) – 4 stars out of 5 — “[A] work of tragic, ineffable beauty….[With] a sound of frosty, slo-mo grandeur, constructed around boomy drumming, flanged guitar and magisterial synths.” Paste (magazine) – “DISINTEGRATION is less a collecti