{"product_id":"4-13-dream","title":"4:13 Dream","description":"Amazon.com\n\nNo one ever managed to nail aimless suburban alienation quite like the Cure, so sensitive yet so party-hearty, and 4:13 Dream, their thirteenth studio album and first in four years, lands in a musical landscape infested with their descendents. Yet Robert Smith and his old blokes can still show the young shavers how it’s done, even as they enter their fourth decade as a working band. The wistful yet ominous opener, \"Underneath the Stars,\" seems to slip towards Pink Floyd’s \"Wish You Were Here,\" making for a perfect exemplar of the Cure’s highly nuanced, yet undeniably commercial, English art-rock. \"The Only One\" seems to rework their own, twenty-year-old classic, \"Just Like Heaven,\" while the febrile scratchy funk of \"Switch\" sounds peculiarly contemporary right now. Their woozy \"Sirensong\" simply refuses to settle into predictablility, and even the lumbering and gloomy \"The Real Snow White\" sounds ready for arenas rather than confined spaces. Enjoyable throughout and often effortlessly commercial, 4:13 Dream should depress and impress many young people, especially some musicians who may now realise just how far they have to go to catch up. --Steve Jelbert\n\nProduct description\n\nCURE THE 4:13 DREAM\n\nAbout the Artist\n\n20\/10\/08 The Cure Story continues...\nIt all started in 1976 as 'Easy Cure', formed by Robert Smith (vocals, guitar) along with schoolmates Michael Dempsey (bass), Lol Tolhurst (drums) and local guitar hero Porl Thompson. They began writing and demoing their own songs almost immediately, playing throughout 1977 in Southern England to an ever growing army of fans. In 1978 the 'Easy' was dropped, along with Porl, and an eager trio now known simply as The Cure were quickly signed to Chris Parry's new Fiction label.\nIn May 1979 their debut album Three Imaginary Boys was released to great acclaim, and as the band toured extensively around the UK, the singles \"Boys Don't Cry\" and \"Jumping Someone Else's Train\" were released. Michael left the band at the end of the year, and Simon Gallup (bass) and Matthieu Hartley (keyboards) joined. In early 1980 the 4-piece Cure embarked on an exploration of the darker side of Robert's songwriting, and emerged with the minimalist classic Seventeen Seconds, along with their first bona-fide 'hit single' \"A Forest.\"\nAfter an intense world tour Matthieu left the group, and in early 1981 the trio recorded an album of mournful atmospheric soundscapes entitled Faith, which included another successful single in \"Primary.\" The band then set out on a second global trek, named \"The Picture Tour,\" during which they released the non-album single \"Charlotte Sometimes.\" In 1982 The Cure went back into the studio, and their increasingly ugly fascination with despair and decay culminated in the unrelenting sonic attack of Pornography. An intensely volatile tour ensued, and the single \"The Hanging Garden\" was released just as Simon left the band.\nAfter pushing the limits of excess, Robert felt he had to change things, and did so by 'going pop' again. Rejuvenated, the now 2-piece Cure released their first real dance single, the cheesy \"Let's Go To Bed,\" and during the making of the accompanying video forged a colorful and lasting relationship with director Tim Pope. The band continued into 1983 with the groovy electronic dance of \"The Walk,\" followed by the demented cartoon jazz of \"The Lovecats.\" In 1984 The Top was released, a strange hallucinogenic mix, which contained the infectiously psychedelic single \"The Caterpillar.\" The world `Top Tour' saw the band expand to a 5-piece, with the addition of Andy Anderson (drums) and Phil Thornalley (bass), and the return of Porl Thompson (guitar).\nThe new Cure sound was captured live for the album Concert. Andy and Phil left soon after the end of the tour, and were replaced by Boris Williams (drums) and further returnee Simon Gallup (bass). This new incarnation started work on 1985's The Head On The Door with a very real sense of 'something happening'... The vibrant hit single \"Inbetween Days\" was followed up by \"Close To Me,\" and the ensuing world tour paved the way for the massive success of the singles collection Standing On A Beach in 1986. That summer saw the band headline the Glastonbury Festival for the first time, and a year of extensive gigs and festivals was crowned by Tim Pope's live concert film The Cure In Orange.\nIn 1987 The Cure brought out Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, an immense double album of extreme and extraordinary stylistic range, and with the arrival of Roger O'Donnell on keyboards the 6-piece Cure traveled the world with the 'Kissing Tour', enjoying 4 more hit singles along the way. The wonderfully atmospheric Disintegration was demoed in 1988 and released in 1989, and despite being a work of powerful brooding grandeur, it too gave rise to 4 hit singles. The awesome 'Prayer Tour' that followed, with the band back down to a 5-piece following the departure of Lol Tolhurst, included some of The Cure's best performa\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B001FBSMOO\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.B001FBSMOO.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:CURE\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Audio cd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Individually inspected: Guaranteed to play perfectly or your money back. Case may show wear and may be in library packaging. 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