Title: The quintessential gothic album!
Product review: Most critics would object that the Cure put out better records throughout their career but they've never made a bleaker one! This, along with bauhaus' mask and Joy Divion's Unknown pleasures is the record that literally incarnates the gothic-feel (sadly it has rapidly become a cliché). All the elements are here: the almost-tribal drumming, the eerie keyboards, the haunting vocals... Someone pointed out that the music tends to get monotonous after a while and they might have a point but the same could be said about post-rock and noise. As with those genres the "repetitivness" (but I don't particularly like the word because of its negative meaning) is required to attain a trance-like quality.
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