The Cure’s 8th studio album was released on 2 May 1989.
As the band’s commercial success increased, Robert Smith felt the band’s music was misunderstood and that he had not created an album that would endure. Smith wrote more than 30 songs, most of which reflected his depression (which Smith attributed to “the fact that I was gonna be thirty”).
Recording of the album was complicated by founding member Lol Tolhurst’s struggle with alcohol, which led to his dismissal from the band, as well as the label’s displeasure in the finished album, which they complained to Smith was “willfully obscure.”
As the band’s commercial success increased, Robert Smith felt the band’s music was misunderstood and that he had not created an album that would endure. Smith wrote more than 30 songs, most of which reflected his depression (which Smith attributed to “the fact that I was gonna be thirty”).
Recording of the album was complicated by founding member Lol Tolhurst’s struggle with alcohol, which led to his dismissal from the band, as well as the label’s displeasure in the finished album, which they complained to Smith was “willfully obscure.”