The Cure - 4:13 Dream
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Free Music Review: Best Cure album since Wish
Hit: 4 Stars
4:13 Dream is the best album the cure have produced since Wish. Although the songs don't seem to be a coherent album and some of the production quality was missing its certainly better than the last three albums of Bloodflowers, Wild Mood Swings and the self titled 'The Cure'.
The album opens with the beautiful and majestic Underneath the Stars. The Only one follows and is pretty much cookie cutter Cure. The reasons why is a soulful and catchy number. Great lyrics in that. Freakshow is a departure from the typical Cure. Funky and sexy but fails to deliver the hit like Friday or Hot Hot Hot. Siren Song is a beautiful acoustic song that opens with Porl on the slide guitar and is short at 2:22. The Real Snow White is edgy and starts slow but finishes nicely and is probably the worst song of the album but listen to the whole thing and you will see that bodes well for the entire album. The Hungry Ghost will challenge for the title of best song on this album. Great lyrics and melody. Switch is a frantic song of distored guitar wah-wha and controlled chaos. The Perfect Boy is another typical cure pop. Nice but forgettable. This hear and now opens slowly but the lyrics and guitars build to a nice chorus. Sleep when I'm dead is the final single of the album and its just ok. You will either love or hate the scream. Kind of reminds me of the Kiss but falls a bit short. Its the most haunting of the album and tries to capture Pornography's darkness. Ending the album is Its Over. Its arguably the best song on the album and is unlike anything the Cure have done before. The manic guitars, thrusting baseline and drums actually reminded me a bit of Rush. Its hands down the best pure rock song they have ever done.
I give this album a 4 out of 5. With better production it would have been a 5 out of 5. In some songs it was hard to make out the words of the lyrics and in others the guitars were a bit to quiet.
Songs that really stand out for me are:
Underneath the Stars
The Hungry Ghost
Siren Song
Its Over
Ironic that these were the best songs on the album and none were sold as singles.
Free Music Review: A flawed gem, but lightyears ahead of the self-titled album
Hit: 4 Stars
I'll make this brief as I'm sure there will be a million reviews flooding this page. The new Cure album is better than the self-titled. Its good to have Porl back in the band, as he is a show in himself. The band is a four-piece and has been since 2005. There are no keyboards on this album except for the track Scream and a few disonnant piano parts scattered throughout. Actually, to sum up the sound of the band on 4:13 Dream, I'd say this is The Cure doing noisy garage-rock the only way they know how. Lyrically, this is definitely a low. Take Sleep When I'm Dead for example: "Give it to the cat and see if it sicks". What?!? Anyway, I recommend the album for the obvious previously released singles (Only One, Perfect Boy, Freakshow) and the wonderful Underneath The Stars which is probably the best Cure song written since Signal To Noise in 2001. Underneath The Stars really feels like this album's Plainsong. Fantastic melodies. Speaking of melody, the songs on this album will likely not get stuck in your head like their classic songs will as they are really odd the first few listens. Production-wise it is almost too similar to the last album. Robert's vocals are twice as loud as they should be and the bass is buried in the mix in some songs. Part of what I loved about the Cure was their lush poppy production. I find myself turning the volume down on some of the songs on 4:13 Dream, which is really strange for me to have to do considering its The Cure. Anyway, I recommend it to anyone who is a fan because it is a good album at heart. We can all agree to disagree. Fact remains that the band's classic era (Head/Door through Wish) is over. At least they are still here giving us something new. No matter what the quality of their new releases, it will never do anything to diminish what they have made in the past. Not to me anyway. Get this album if you like the band. Nuff said.Free Music Review: I was not expecting to like it this much
Hit: 4 Stars
This is a remarkable return for a classic band. The Cure issued what many fans consider their best CD in 1989, Disintegration was the pinnacle for a band that had been around since the middle 70s and was considered by many critics to be the alternative band of the 80s. They have been around now for 30 + years with many lineup changes. Guitarist Porl is back for this one.
This CD, 4:13 Dream has me excited again to be a Cure fan. After Wish and Bloodflowers the Cure's CDs have been disappointing for many fans that first listened to them in the 80s and early 90s. Well, if you are expecting another Disintegration you may be disappointed. However, if you want something half-way between Wish and Kiss me Kiss me Kiss me and are willing to compromise this may be their best offering in 15 years. I was not expecting to like it this much, but I do. The guitars are lush. The bass is tight. I wish the drums were more prominent, but the sound is great. Smith's voice is also upfront in the songs and sounds much better than the previous album. Sometimes I think they could have mixed the songs better in the sound room, but maybe this is a problem with my reference system.
With Smith lyrically it has either been sticky sweet or dark somber dreamscapes. This is all true here as well. All in all, a much better offering. The album is much better than the remixed singles. This CD is not going to scale a mountain, but it is a solid effort and much better than the other 90's offerings. I can't wait for the next tour.
Key songs:
"The Only One"
"Switch"
"Freakshow"
"The Perfect Boy"
Free Music Review: Great to have them back!
Hit: 4 Stars
Two points I'll make - this is a vast improvement over the last album, 2004's "The Cure". I find myself less and less interested in that album as time goes on, to the point that whenever I listen to it, I skip about half of the tracks now. (Too bad, too, since the best songs from those sessions, 30 minutes worth of b-sides, are better than almost any song from the album). Anyways, this is a return to form - a form where returning member Porl Thompson blazes away on guitar just like the old days, and Simon Gallup's bass just drives almost every melody. And as some have said, yeah, this sounds a lot like 1992's "Wish". So I went back and listened to that album this weekend, and realized that "Wish" is by far the more accomplished effort. The songs have depth, are longer and more intricate, and to me, encapsulize just what the latter-day version of this band is all about. There are some great songs here, but some real "future skippers", too. "Freakshow" and "It's over" are tuneless rock-out exercises, perhaps meant to signal the return of Thompson, but instead only pointing out their lack of melody....and keyboards. (The CURE without keys is just a friggin' rock band!) I definitely look forward to the promised Part Two of this affair, the darker second half of the previously promised double-album. Perhaps that will be the return of the majestic and deeper CURE. Until then, though, this is still as good as I could have expected! And, as usual, the four b-sides are as good as the album itself.Free Music Review: A Return to Form
Hit: 4 Stars
As an 'older' Cure fan, I have not really cared much for the bands outings since Disintegration (a climactic masterpiece). The last time (of several) that I saw the band live was for (Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me) so its been a while.
I find this current offering to be a true return to form -- having just listened to it for the third time since I purchased it this morning -- what a welcome surprise without the tiring strains of nostalgia.
Being aware of some of the details of how this was recorded (song selection from past sessions, etc. -- I would say this album is at best a mix of styles best relating to The Top/Head on the Door era with a bit of Disintegration and Love Cats EP throw thrown in for added atmosphere and quirkiness.
After LOVING everything up to Disintegration--The Cure lost me at WISH and cemented that loss with everything that followed. It was a real disappointment.
This brilliant return to form -- albeit 'imperfect' is a pleasure from start to finish: From the dreamy opening number Underneath the Stars to the climatic build uo to the last note--this piece of music actually feels like a whole album -- all grown up -- but retaining the magic of the past outings with an updated style. Nothing sappy here i.e. (Letter to Elise ... UGH!?!?!), but a very playful, eccentricity rings clear throughout (Bananafishbones/Inbetween Days) ... Highly recommended!