THE CURE

With the new album Bloodflowers, the Cure continues to dose the pop-loving public with its unique brand of alternative medicine. The disc, which marks the band’s 20-year anniversary, completes a musical trilogy that began with 1982’s Pornography and continued with the release in 1989 of Disintegration. Hailed by critics as “vintage Cure,” the new CD is a welcome return to the band’s characteristic combination of peculiar imagery and sparsely angular melodies. A mini-tour was launched in mid-February and our crew caught up with Robert Smith & Co. during a gig in Dallas, Tex.

“Out Of This World” written by R. Smith, S. Gallup, R. O'Donnell, P. Bamonte, J. Cooper, courtesy of Elektra Records and Fiction Songs, Inc., administered by BMG Songs, Inc. (ASCAP).