Disintegration [Deluxe Edition]
Great review of an incredible album by Nitsuh Abebe in Pitchfork today...
"Disintegration does not "scatter." It's a single, grand, dense, continual, epic trip into core stuff the Cure did well. They'd always been good at this kind of album, too. If Kiss Me is a crowded, teeming city to explore, listening to Disintegration is more like standing in the middle of some vast, empty space-- the kind of ocean or plain where you can see the horizon in all directions. You can sense that focus straight from the first minute, during which some wind chimes knock around in an empty void, and then the band bursts out with one of the most overwhelmingly grand openings I 've ever heard on a pop record-- a slow-motion, radiant synth figure of such scale that Sofia Coppola has plausibly used it to soundtrack the coronation of Louis XVI.
It's no wonder this was meaningful to a lot of teenagers: The sheer emotional grandeur of tracks like that opener, "Plainsong", make a great match for the feeling that everything in your life is all-consumingly important, whether it's your all-consuming sadness, joy, longing, or whatever".
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