The Cure - 4:13 Dream (2008)
After months of anticipation, 4 singles and a remix EP,
earlier today, FNT pre’d the brand new Cure album, 4:13 Dream! I’ve
been looking forward to this for a while, so I’m very happy it’s here.
I hope you all enjoy.
2008 release, the 13th studio longplayer from the legendary Goth rockers led by Robert Smith. Now down to a quartet (Smith, Simon Gallup, Porl Thompson and Jason Cooper), the band continue to musically evolve while dealing with subjects like relationships, the material world, politics and religion. The songs on 4:13 Dream are stripped down and ‘in your face’ while also sounding very much like The Cure. Includes the singles ‘The Only One’, ‘Freakshow’, ‘Sleep When I’m Dead’ and ‘The Perfect Boy.’
Track Listing:
1. Underneath the Stars
2. Only One
3. Reasons Why
4. Freakshow
5. Sirensong
6. Real Snow White
7. Hungry Ghost
8. Switch
9. Perfect Boy
10. This. Here and Now. With You
11. Sleep When I’m Dead
12. Scream
13. It’s Over
Artist: The Cure
Album: 4:13 Dream
Label: Suretone / Geffen
Playtime: 52:37 min
Genre: Alt. Rock
URL: http://www.myspace.com/thecure
Rip date: 2008-10-20
Street date: 2008-10-28
Size: 73.85 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: VBR kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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Password: freakshow
The cure - 4:13 Dream (2008)
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Alternative Rock | Label: Geffen | 52:37 min
Four years, a cancelled North American tour, and a slew of missed
deadlines later, The Cure has finally released their thirteenth studio
album. It's been a long, arduous process for the band's fans (and
probably the band itself), a fact a good friend of mine hasn't been
reluctant to remind me of. “[But] still," he would tell me, "at least
their next album is supposed to be a double album!" That was eleven
months ago. Clearly, things didn't go exactly as planned. Instead, Cure
frontman Robert Smith opted to separate the recording (which was
rumoured to be thirty-three songs long), with 2008's 4:13 Dream taking
a more positive slant, while the as of yet untitled second half
comprising of the darker tracks. But as disappointing as the change in
plans may be, especially after all the delays, 4:13 Dream is still a
quality release, as well as one of the strongest albums The Cure has
released in quite awhile.
"Underneath the Stars" kicks things off with a bit of a gloomy jam
reminiscent of Disintegration's "Plainsong", but after the six minute
opener, the murkiness quickly dissipates. In its place, a bouncier,
upbeat Cure takes over. "Only One" and "Hungry Ghost" are two of the
more energetic offerings featured on 4:13 Dream. Musically, they
present a glimpse of what the album has to offer, that being material
generally happier and poppier than one would usually associate with the
English band. Smith's singing is placed at the forefront of the album;
sometimes he sounds genuinely content, particularly in the
aforementioned "Only One", but other times a wistful tone manages to
break through. Such moments of intimacy contrast very nicely with the
layers of heavy instrumentation, especially guitars. That isn't to say
that 4:13 Dream is all sunshine and daisies, of course. Smith sings the
rather disturbing "I won't try to bring you down with my suicide" in
"Reasons Why", and his "You've got what I want"s in "Real Snow White"
could have been menacing if not for the buoyant chorus that shortly
follows. "The Scream" and "It's Over" close off the album on a dark
note; the former taking a mellower, effect heavy approach, and the
latter taking a more frenzied route. Effectively, both songs provide a
nice transition into what should have been the darker, second half of
the album, a point made all the more evident through Smith's yelps of
"This is not a dream" in "The Scream".
Overall, 4:13 Dream is an extremely consistent album throughout its
runtime. Though the heavy wah effects "Switch" are somewhat irksome,
and the dynamics of "Freakshow" are a bit odd, there is hardly a dull
moment to be heard. The Wish-era Cure meets The Cranberries alt rock in
"Sleep When I'm Dead" is particularly infectious, as is "Real Snow
White", which is heavily built on intricate guitar melodies and dense
rhythms. Classic Cure this is not, but it is, dare I say it, an easier
album to digest than some of the band's previous works. Even if the
material is a little atypical for the band, it's great to see that The
Cure still has some juice left in the tank, especially after the torpid
sounding efforts that were Bloodflowers and The Cure. Now hopefully it
won't take another four years to release the second half.
The thirteenth studio album by The Cure was originally intended to be a double album, however frontman Robert Smith confirmed in recent interviews that this idea was scrapped, despite the fact that 33 songs have been recorded.[2] Some songs featured on the album were recycled from earlier album sessions. An example is "Sleep When I'm Dead" which was originally written for the band's 1985 album The Head on the Door,[2] and "A Boy I Never Knew", a re-recording of an unreleased song from 2004's The Cure. Smith attested that the album would mostly comprise of the upbeat songs the band recorded, while the darker songs may be released on another album.[3]
On 1 May 2008, The Cure, via their MySpace profile, posted a bulletin
in which they confirmed that the album would be released on 13
September. The bulletin also said that the thirteenth day of each month
leading up to the release of the album (May, June, July and August)
would see the release of a single from the album, as well as b-sides
that would not make the final cut. The first single, "The Only One,"
was released on 13 May, followed by "Freakshow" on 13 June. "Sleep When
I'm Dead" was then released on 13 July, followed by the fourth and
final single, "The Perfect Boy," which was released on 13 August. On 16
July, Robert Smith announced that the album would be pushed back to 13
October, and in September's place, an EP was released containing
remixes of the four singles from 4:13 Dream, entitled Hypnagogic
States. The album's release date was delayed yet again, but has since
been set by the band's record label, Geffen Records, as 27 October.
On 21 August the title of the album was announced online as 4.13 Dream,
and corrected three days later to 4:13 Dream. The official track
listing was first revealed on the band's official website on 15
September 2008. Smith also mentioned the "dark album" companion piece,
and jokingly stated that he would like to have it released by his next
birthday (21 April 2009).
