Track Listing

1. Plainsong
2. Pictures Of You
3. Closedown
4. Love Song
5. Last Dance
6. Lullaby
7. Fascination Street
8. Prayers For Rain
9. The Same Deep Water As You
10. Disintegration
11. Homesick
12. Untitled

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #803 in Music
• Released on: 2001-03-19
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 72 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Disintegration is a pop album realised on an epic scale. Most of its 12 songs are long mood pieces that develop slowly around the listener. Anchored by complex drum patterns, the layered guitars, soaring bass lines and rich keyboards blend to create a lush, evocative soundscape that captures the ear immediately; and for all its length, the album is never boring. The lyrical focus is intensely personal throughout, and, with the exception of "Love Song", the mood is overwhelmingly dark and brooding. Here are songs of remembrance that, through their deep candor, transcend the individual level to explore universal longings and fears. Robert Smith, his vocals plaintive or angry or despairing, unfolds a tapestry of loss. Broken bonds, old lies, missed opportunities, belated realisations. Anyone who has experienced the joy and sorrow--especially the sorrow--of love will find his or her deepest sentiments, noble and petty alike, echoed poetically here. --Al Massa

Customer Reviews

The best album ever!!!
I'm a big fan of The Cure and have adored them for longer than I care to admit, but this album is by far my favorite. Although other Cure albums are brilliant, this one keeps the same atmosphere through the whole album which for me, makes it stand out. Definately the soundtrack to my youth as I was in my late teens when this came out and I was at that time the sterotypical teenager who heard this and thought "At last, someone who understands me!."

However many years later, I still listen to this album a lot and still love it. The music and the lyrics are just pure genius and although it may be thought of as rather melancholy, it is, in the wonderful self-obsessed way where you can just wallow in it all. Although melancholy it always makes me feel uplifted after listening to it as its so beautiful. Robert Smith at his most brilliant with both the music and the lyrics. Sheer Poetry!

The beginning of the end......................
A reviewer at the time of release said "Phew! there's not much room to breathe in here" and they were absolutely right.

The overall feel and sound of this recording is almost suffocating and that's a shame because this could have been a truly great Cure album. It's true to say that in many respects the Cure were going through the motions by this stage but Smith's musical talent had yet to vanish entirely.

Part of the problem is the production. It's stodgy. I don't think anybody but Smith had much say in it's recording. However, we do get great tracks like 'Lullaby' and 'Pictures Of You' that somehow escaped the midnight pillow of death.

The real star of the show is the final track 'Untitled'. I'd always written it off until I saw them perform it on the 'Trilogy' DVD. The reason for this is that this album plays much better live.

Well after this album I don't know. It all got a bit dull when the songwriting began to creak. Maybe Smith's pact with the devil finally reached the small print. It's the last worthwhile Cure album. And probably a bargain from Amazon.

The best cure Album by a country mile!
In the late 70s/early 80s I had been into Joy Division et al in a big way and subsequently found The Cure to be a perfect augmentation to my playlist. Faith and Pornography were my faves; Kiss Me and Head were great LPs too but, when Disintegration came out I was knocked sideways!

There's no need to add anything to the many positive reviews already posted here, except to say this album is quite simply the best thing they have ever done.