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The Cure were one of the icons of the burgeoning, mostly teenage goth/alt movement of the 70s and 80s, which is why I find it funny that Disintegration seems far more weathered and wise than its audience- every song brings an epic sweep of desolation and ruin, kingdoms crumbling, lives no longer living.

Disintegration is very much an album of end times- longing melodies and utterly beefy production elevate Robert Smith's songs of love from interpersonal to ever-present elegies from life ... read more

It is a little dangerous how breezy and sweet Troye Sivan makes emasculating yourself for an uncaring lover sound, but even so there's a deep yearning and desperation underneath the flirtatious intimacy that I'm sure hits uncomfortably close for lots of gay guys, including myself. Great song.

Very cohesive and well-constructed, which makes it even more of a bummer it's completely vapid.

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