Red Mosquito

Finally

I enjoyed the new album so much, I think I'm gonna do a deep dive into the band. I only know a handful of their songs.

When I've done these things before I've always gone chronologically, but I think I'm gonna do this one by feel and recommendation.

I've downloaded Disintegration and Wish.

You'll love Disintegration.

Wish is up there too. Sometimes I like it better than Disintegration. More guitar based and less monochromatic while still featuring one of the saddest songs ever written, "To Wish Impossible Things"

epilogue wrote:I only know a handful of their songs.

This is me as well. I've been thinking it's high time I get into The Cure.

does anyone else want to kneel on the top of a high green hill and scream "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" at the top of your lungs to Endsong?

something I love about The Cure's approach to a song like "And Nothing Is Forever" is that it could be simply a schmaltzy ballad washed in strings, if not for the slightly inappropriately pounding drums lending the sweetness a crushing Funeral Doom Metal feel; I guess that's the goth of it, right? Type O Negative could also do that really well

not sure if its a guitar or a synth that starts at 2:22 during Endsong
i fuckin love that thing

that a perfect song to close an album

Ms Harmless wrote:something I love about The Cure's approach to a song like "And Nothing Is Forever" is that it could be simply a schmaltzy ballad washed in strings, if not for the slightly inappropriately pounding drums lending the sweetness a crushing Funeral Doom Metal feel; I guess that's the goth of it, right? Type O Negative could also do that really well

Also that really distorted chunky bass

Jorge wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:something I love about The Cure's approach to a song like "And Nothing Is Forever" is that it could be simply a schmaltzy ballad washed in strings, if not for the slightly inappropriately pounding drums lending the sweetness a crushing Funeral Doom Metal feel; I guess that's the goth of it, right? Type O Negative could also do that really well

Also that really distorted chunky bass

yes

definitely AOTY for me
loving every song of this thing
thank you Robert

I listened through again and I enjoyed it more than even last time. I feel like there hasn’t been enough attention paid to Drone: Nodrone, which stuck out to me on both listens.

easy AOTY (not counting the Wicked soundtrack, which is not new songs)

tragabigzanda wrote:

liebzz wrote:I listened through again and I enjoyed it more than even last time. I feel like there hasn’t been enough attention paid to Drone: Nodrone, which stuck out to me on both listens.

That song is the most divisive over on the Hoffman forum. It's my least favorite on the album.

As a casual observer, it seemed pretty cool.

I'd somehow not yet heard former Pitchfork writer Chris Ott's Shallow Rewards podcast but the episode on Wild Mood Swings is glorious:

https://shallowrewards.substack.com/p/t ... ood-swings

I can't wait to hear the others.

Birds in Hell wrote:I'd somehow not yet heard former Pitchfork writer Chris Ott's Shallow Rewards podcast but the episode on Wild Mood Swings is glorious:

https://shallowrewards.substack.com/p/t ... ood-swings

I can't wait to hear the others.

The one on Bloodflowers is just as good, perhaps better!

What is it, analysis? Or like a band history? Or what

A bit of both, I guess.

He's very critical of both of those records above but in a way that's deeply informed by the band's history.

I tried so hard to develop a revisionist appreciation for Wild Mood Swings but I just couldn’t get there