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The Cure - 4:13 Dream
| Guardian |
| "The two of us is all there is," sings Cure prime mover Robert Smith on the breezy escapist pop of The Perfect Boy. "The rest is all a dream." Always a sucker for a love song about shutting out the big, bad world, Smith makes his music in a similar state of splendid isolation, a stranger to fashion. After 30-odd years, the question is not whether the Cure will spring any major surprises - they won't - but whether they can steer clear of the self-parodic shtick that mired their 1990s albums. Whittled down from a mound of material (another album from the same sessions is rumoured), 4:13 Dream is admirably taut and vibrant. Though nothing here scales classic heights, everything is either spry and charming (The Only One), lush and stately (Underneath the Stars) or fierce and churning (The Scream). The surly twin-guitar attack of finale It's Over bodes well for the second instalment....full text |
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| Nme |
| Really, The Cure must be the ultimate indie success story. After crawling down a doomy post-punk gutter ending in the apocalyptic ‘Pornography’ (1982/Year Zero for goths), Robert Smith began spinning his dark visions into pop, with singles like ‘The Lovecats’ (1983) and later ‘Just Like Heaven’ (1987) turning his band into serious unit-shifters. Smith repeatedly appeased his unholy gods by releasing Slayer-are-lightweights albums such as ‘Disintegration’ (1989). Since then, he has regularly crept back to the light of the charts and ‘4:13 Dream’ is such an occasion. And one which, given the ’80s revival, is timed to perfection....full text |
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| Sputnikmusic |
| Four years, a cancelled North American tour, and a slew of missed deadlines later, The Cure has finally released their thirteenth studio album. It's been a long, arduous process for the band's fans (and probably the band itself), a fact a good friend of mine hasn't been reluctant to remind me of. “[But] still," he would tell me, "at least their next album is supposed to be a double album!" That was eleven months ago. Clearly, things didn't go exactly as planned. Instead, Cure frontman Robert Smith opted to separate the recording (which was rumoured to be thirty-three songs long), with 2008's 4:13 Dream taking a more positive slant, while the as of yet untitled second half comprising of the darker tracks. But as disappointing as the change in plans may be, especially after all the delays, 4:13 Dream is still a quality release, as well as one of the strongest albums The Cure has released in quite awhile....full text |
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