When was disintegration released

Also, it was a big turning point for the band. It marked the end of a certain period for the band. I kind of knew in my heart that that was it with this band. It felt like the end. It was just a matter of time before we stopped. We were playing giant stadiums. So what do you do? Do you do more of the same? I could just see myself. I mean, I did go a bit [crazy] around that time, when I look back at some of the things I did and said.

Luckily, I came out of it. I had enough sane, caring people around me to not let me completely self-destruct. I managed to channel most of that into those two albums, Disintegration and Wish. They actually turned out all right. How do you handle the more depressive or dark feelings these days? I read a lot more than I used to. When I was in my teens, I used to read voraciously and then I kind of stopped for about 20 years.

I can do things. So I never feel sorry for myself. Perhaps the reality is that I used to glamorize it, maybe romanticize it slightly, and use it for artistic purposes. Disintegration , however, was more than the sum of its songs.

On the album, each song sounds like a cover of the song before it, slowly building in enormity and despair through this recursion.

As a kid who was starting to go through long episodes of lethargy and hopelessness, it was a sound that synced up with my soul. Such was the case with me. I had no idea why I would alternate between periods of great overconfidence and elation, otherwise known as hypomania, and episodes of extreme depression. I barely realized on a rational level that those changes were even happening, trapped inside them as I was. But deep down, the music of The Cure resonated with my new internal discord.

If Kiss Me had been like a hypomanic episode, full of fireworks and fanfare, Disintegration was like a depressive episode, sluggish and sad in a way that teetered between self-reflection and self-destruction. Would you like to support the mission of Open Culture? Please consider making a donation to our site. Also consider following Open Culture on Facebook and Twitter and sharing intelligent media with your friends.

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The album received positive reviews in the British music press and the band undertook their first UK tour, supporting Siouxsie and the Banshees. By , Dempsey had left to join Associates and been replaced by Simon Gallup.

The band also enlisted new keyboardist Matthieu Hartley, a move that brought a slower, gloomier sound to the music, evident on their second album Seventeen Seconds. But their pop sensibilities still shone through, most notably on their first hit single, A Forest. Twenty seconds of wind chimes intro the track before the sudden sonic lurch of bass, synth and drums piles in.

Within the lyrics, Smith quotes a girl who compares the weather to death and complains about feeling old. According to interviews, Smith was inspired to write the song after a fire broke out in his house.

While he was sorting through the remains, he came across his wallet, which contained seared photos of his wife Mary Poole, one of which featured on the cover of the single. After reading this work, Smith says that he destroyed his old personal photos and many of his home videos in an effort to wipe away his past.

It was a decision he came to regret a few days later. Sonically, it has all the classic Cure elements, deeply layered textural sound with phased and chorus-drenched monotone guitar predominating. According to biographer Jeff Apter, the track was written by Smith as a means to list his physical and artistic shortcomings. Thick textural layers of synth, slow ponderous guitar lines from Smith and grandiose gated reverb toms from drummer Boris Williams are defining features on the track.

Without this track, he recalled, Disintegration would have been a radically different album. Last Dance was not included on original vinyl pressings of Disintegration and was added initially as a bonus track.

Whatever the inspiration, Smith has said that the lullabies his father sang him had similarly grisly endings. The track became the highest-charting single by the band in their home country, reaching No. Structurally, the song differs from other tracks in that it has long instrumental passages, broken up between a single verse and two choruses.