The Cure - Seventeen Seconds LP cocteau twins about loss and mistrust

about loss and mistrust

” Q – 4 stars ****

and building the album bit by bit over a year with just my producer and partner Toby Butler – with whom I co-wrote all the music

and suddenly I was off to the races again

In many ways this second album captures Arc Iris’ musical odyssey as a band

The Cure - Seventeen Seconds LP cocteau twins about loss and mistrustThe second Cure album from 1980, dense bleak and with the addition of perennial favourite Simon Gallup on bass and the short lived but effective Mathleu Hartley on keyboards expanded The Cure's previously sparse sound, adding layers of texture that complemented Smith's longer, less accessible songs. While "Play For Today" harkens back to the bands poppier days, "Seventeen Seconds" and "Secrets" show that the band was not about to turn back from its