The Cure - 4:13 dream (2008 )
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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 presently 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" keeps seeming 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" manages to rework their own classic "Just Like Heaven", twenty years old and still soundtracking sports highlights, while "Switch" is febrile scratchy funk, which should be unconvincing yet sounds peculiarly contemporary right now. The woozy "Sirensong" simply refuses to settle into predictablility and even the lumbering and gloomy "The Real Snow White", owing plenty to Joy Division’s back catalogue, sounds ready for arenas rather than confined spaces. Enjoyable throughout and often effortlessly commercial, 4:13 Dream should depress many young people, especially those musicians who realise just how far they have to catch up.
Track listing:
1. "Underneath the Stars" – 6:17
2. "The Only One" – 3:57
3. "The Reasons Why" – 4:35
4. "Freakshow" – 2:30
5. "Sirensong" – 2:22
6. "The Real Snow White" – 4:43
7. "The Hungry Ghost" – 4:29
8. "Switch" – 3:44
9. "The Perfect Boy" – 3:21
10. "This. Here and Now. With You" – 4:06
11. "Sleep When I'm Dead" – 3:51
12. "The Scream" – 4:37
13. "It's Over" – 4:16
Total Play Time: 52:48
Personel:
Robert Smith – vocals, guitar, 6-string bass, keyboards, producer, mixing, engineering
Porl Thompson – guitar
Simon Gallup – bass
Jason Cooper – drums, percussion, loops
Release date: 27/10/2008
Label: Polydor Group
Format: Lossless FLAC
EAC/FLAC inc. CUE sheet, M3U & log
Size: 360MB
