Listening to the Cure's 1979 debut album this month makes sense. It was before Robert Smith started wearing makeup and they were much closer to being a punk band. The bounce of the opening song is upbeat. It has a more new wave feel. This is back to when their keyboardist Lol Tolhurst was playing drums. He gets the job done for this sort of thing. "Accuracy' is closer to what we now consider post-punk."Grinding Halt" works for what it is, but I appreciate the Cure more once they evolved past this straightforward jangle.
The guitar sounds much better on "Another Day' there is a more emotive sense to the vocals that the guitar complements. "Object" is more of a straightforward punk, though I like how the vocals were recorded. The bass on a song like "Subway Song" finds the slink of the bass playing down a more abstract groove. The cover of "Foxy Lady' is not the band's best moment. It feels more like Gang of Four. There are points in this album where it feels like you are sitting in on their band practice. Robert Smith's voice is still finding itself, though you can hear where he ends up on "Meat Hook". "So What" is more punk than not.
"Fire In Cairo" is more focused, making it one of this album's gems. "It's Not You" is another punk song, that works better than some others. The title track is another one of the the album's classic tracks and perhaps the darkest. The last track is an outro jam which I am not even going to bother with, so as it stands I will give this album a 9, showing that an album can be very influential without having to be perfect nor the band's best album.
11.1
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