Idolator

The Cure is back and in radio-ready swoon mode, with Robert Smith hitting high notes and the guitars jangling behind his giddiness over the physical rapture you provide him. Porl Thompson (looking not unlike Boy George with his eyeliner and skull tattoo) is back in the recording line-up for the first time since 1992's Wish, and I'm glad to see (or at least hear it—ugh, that skull tattoo). Hey, maybe that's why this sounds so much like "High!" More »