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	The Cure: Bloodflowers (2000): Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Robert Smith declared 'Bloodflowers' to be the final release from The Cure.
		Bloodflowers boasts all of the Cure's signatures: stately tempos, languid melodies, spacious arrangements, cavernous echoes, morose lyrics, keening vocals, long running times.
		While Bloodflowers doesn't tread huge amounts of new ground for The Cure, its a development of Disintegration and Wish that is as fantastic as most of their work.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/cure/bloodflowers (840 words)

	CD REVIEW : The Cure - "Bloodflowers": Legends Magazine, Issue 98
		Bloodflowers, for the most part, is a guitar album with many textures; aside from Smith's trademark Fender - acoustic rhythms, potent rock-riffing and searing guitar solos add flavor and substance to each song.
		Bloodflowers, like Pornography and Disintegration, is consistent in tone and theme; in fact every song seems to be played in the same key.
		Bloodflowers is essential listening for diehard Cure fans, and older Cure fans who gave up along the way should give it a change too.
	www.legendsmagazine.net /98/cure.htm (878 words)

	Daily Vault - June 28, 2004
		Bloodflowers is sort of a farewell album by The Cure, and every song seems to have been written by a moribund band, distressed, and in a state of turmoil, reflecting the fragile state of mind of a waning band.
		With Bloodflowers, it seems as if Smith is crying out the tears that he had forgotten cry out in Disintegration, and had kept them bottled up for a decade, to be released, when he needs help, the most.
		With Bloodflowers however, the roles are reversed, and it is Robert Smith and his band who seek sympathy from their loyal fans, rather than they themselves providing some.
	www.dailyvault.com /2004_06_29-vi.html (638 words)

	The Cure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		According to Smith, Bloodflowers is meant to be the final part of a Cure trilogy that began with the claustrophobically bleak minimalism of 1982's Pornography, the album that preceded the release of the almost frivolous new-wave dance single "Let's Go to Bed," the song that first broke the Cure in America.
		And Bloodflowers completes the hat trick with its generally melancholy outlook and an absence of upbeat single-fodder along the lines of "Friday I'm in Love" (from 1992's Wish) or "Mint Car" (from 1996's Wild Mood Swings), with its "so happy I could scream" sentiments.
		Which is another way of saying that Bloodflowers is yet another solid album from an artist who defined his unique sound, style, and vision years ago, and could probably go on working at this level for another decade if he so chose.
	www.providencephoenix.com /archive/music/00/02/17/CURE.html (581 words)

	Cure's final painkiller
		The band's trademark long introductions set the album's pace in the first 30 seconds of each track for what will either be a stark visit to the past or a vision of a different, and most likely better, future.
		Rather than dwelling on the past, the band says, using it to move forward is key - a fitting sentiment for an album that is the last for such a storied group.
		At the same time, there is no more fitting end for a group that has influenced some of today's greatest musical groups - as well as inspiring untold numbers of individuals who think of the group's 13 albums as commiserating, contemplative friends that reflect three generations of despair, love and - finally - hope.
	www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V139/N28/01-pain.28d.html (1006 words)

	The Cure - Bloodflowers \| Album Review @ Music-Critic.com : the source for music reviews, interviews, articles, and ...
		Initially pencilled in as a Spring 1999 release, Bloodflowers has been ready and waiting for the past six months, but we have had to wait until the end of the Y2K frenzy for their latest offering to hit the shops.
		Written on the back of a host of cracking festival gigs and recorded at several studios in the south of England, Bloodflowers is well worth the wait, taking full advantage of hi-tech equipment and creating a nine-track album that must rank as one of their strongest.
		Putting the title track and "39" aside, this is a tight new release from The Cure and while it's difficult to see where any hit singles are going to come from, the album is a credit to their realism and creativity.
	www.music-critic.com /rock/cure_bloodflowers.htm (267 words)

	The Purdue Exponent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Cure's new album "Bloodflowers" seeks to recapture whatever was lost after 1989's "Disentigration," arguably the band's last notable achievement.
		Luckily, "Bloodflowers" backs up these claims, returning The Cure to that which defined them in the first place — those long melodic intros, angst-ridden lyrics and haunting vocals that made it OK to feel bad about yourself.
		There are no bright shining moments from "Bloodflowers," and what glimmers of any happiness tend to be shut down by the next lyric or the refrain.
	www.purdueexponent.org /2000/02/29/entertainment (565 words)

	Black Celebration: Robert Smith On The New Cure Album
		That just kept a sour taste in my mouth and I didn't feel like going through that again with Bloodflowers because the record means too much to me for it to become a plaything for the record companies.
		The record company was a little [dismayed] when they listened to Bloodflowers and realized that they weren't going have another radio single.
		With Bloodflowers, absolutely no one was allowed in the studio that wasn't actually recording.
	imaginaryboys.altervista.org /english/cure/articles/blackcelebration.htm (4797 words)

	cmj.com \| new music first
		Longtime fans' eyes probably bulged with both doubt and anticipation at his lofty statement; it's been more than a decade since Smith and his rotating entourage have made a passionate, poignant landmark in gloom like their 1982 album Pornography or their 1989 masterpiece Disintegration.
		On Bloodflowers, however, The Cure has become formidable once more, shelving the slick pop posture of its '90s material and returning to form, basking in an introspective lyrical intensity that's mirrored by a brooding, gritty, guitar-driven dankness.
		The Cure's maniacal brand of pop music may have broken the band to mainstream ears, but Bloodflowers' conceptual cohesion and emotional depth approach the top of the group's heap of classic records.
	www.cmj.com /articles/display_article.php?id=27341 (200 words)

	Cure: Bloodflowers: Pitchfork Record Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Frustrating as it must be to bear that record as a cross, a great album's a great album, and the Cure haven't released one as consistent and inventive since.
		Given the groundswell of hype in advance of the Cure's other supposed 90's masterpieces, and their subsequent letdowns, this album will likely never become as relevant as the band's earlier works.
		But as a rejoinder to the last decade, Bloodflowers is essential for anyone that's heretofore known and loved the Cure.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/c/cure/bloodflowers.shtml (717 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Music: Record Reviews
		Half the fun is playing spot the not-quite-oblique allusions to the end: "Out of This World" cries "we always have to go back to real lives"; "The Loudest Sound" has "nothing left to say"; "39" notices "the fire is almost out," and so on.
		The rest of Bloodflowers' appeal lies in its nine nocturnes' smoldering arrangements; the lush, sprawling music is at least on par with 1989's gloom gem Disintegration.
		If Bloodflowers is these imaginary boys' curtain call, this gorgeous, crimson-hued sunrise of an album draws the shades in style.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2000-03-31/music_recviews2.html (281 words)

	Reviews on Bloodflowers
		Bloodflowers, the band's 13th release in 21 years, is moody, melancholy, manic and, of course, mopey.
		Bloodflowers (out Tuesday) is a concerted effort to return to the atmospherics of 1989's hit CD Disintegration, but it doesn't have the immediacy of that set's accessible singles Lovesong and Pictures of
		Bloodflowers is just what you might expect from the Cure, if all you expect from them is Goth by numbers.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/ChainofFlowers/bfreviews.htm (12316 words)

	Album Bloodflowers
		For 2000's Bloodflowers, Robert Smith decided to give the people what they wanted: a classic Cure album, billed as the third part of a trilogy begun with Pornography and continued with Disintegration.
		That turns out to be more or less true, since Bloodflowers boasts all of the Cure's signatures: stately tempos, languid melodies, spacious arrangements, cavernous echoes, morose lyrics, keening vocals, long running times.
		That makes for a good listening experience, especially for fans of Disintegration, but it never catches hold the way that record did, for two simple reasons: there isn't enough variation between the songs for them to distinguish themselves, nor are there are enough sonic details to give individual tracks character.
	digilander.libero.it /gianniv/music/htm/album.cure.bloodflowers.00.htm (249 words)

	The Cure 'Bloodflowers' (Polydor/Fiction)
		Immortalised in 'South Park', rich enough to have once contemplated the group purchase of a small Cornish village and now into their third decade in rock (not to mention their Forties), The Cure hardly needed to roll out a thirteenth studio album.
		Indeed, much of 'Bloodflowers' sounds too restrained to be The Cure.
		Such familiarity should be contemptible but, bearing in mind this may be their final release, it makes for an affectionate family album of their twenty-four-year career.
	www.xfm.co.uk /Article.asp?id=3976 (282 words)

	The Cure: Bloodflowers --- Ink Blot Magazine
		Sometimes there's more beauty to be found in despair than in happiness, and The Cure's familiarity with the darker side of the light has provided us with yet another excuse to revel in depression.
		On Bloodflowers, The Cure's twentieth album to date, the masters of melancholy have spawned another soundtrack for all of life's heartaches - crooning through nine richly developed tracks with a hopeless conviction.
		Considered by some to be the patriarchs of classic Goth, The Cure continue to amplify the beauty in pain with this bouquet of bloodflowers - succeeding in making the art of sadness fashionable once again.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Cure_Bloodflowers.htm (425 words)

	Broadside Interactive
		The problem with "Bloodflowers" is not that it's a bad album, but that it's not as good as fans expect it to be.
		Though Smith himself has said in interviews that "Bloodflowers" is the best Cure album ever, nothing could be further from the truth.
		It's a good Cure album, but it sounds so much like The Cure are "supposed" to sound that it comes off as stale and even a bit contrived.
	www.gmu.edu /news/broadside/020700/style/cdreview.html (308 words)

	Cure: Bloodflowers Aversion.com Review
		Bloodflowers isn't so much a swan song for the Cure (if that's what it turns out to be,) but a trek through life's comedowns.
		Dark and brooding, Bloodflowers is far more haunting than anything involving simple personal politics could produce.
		With a more somber mood than recent records, Bloodflowers finds itself turning its back on much of the pop seeping into the band's work, with songs like "Watching Me Fall," rolling along like warm molasses-sticky, murky and sweet-or "The Loudest Sound," featuring staggering, inebriated beats lurking under starry-eyed guitars.
	www.aversion.com /bands/reviews.cfm?f_id=175 (479 words)

	Bloodflowers by Cure CD
		With BLOODFLOWERS, Robert Smith and the boys give sway to the most shoegazery elements of their eternally languid arsenal to often stunning effect.
		BLOODFLOWERS is a welcome return to the Cure's ongoing meditation on discontent.
		Three listens and you'll love it." Uncut (3/00, p.78) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...This gently undulating homage to catatonia is something of a gem - crisply layered, quietly hypnotic, with a comfortingly Cure-ish middle eight of crazy-paving Les Dawson piano.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/1096170/a/Bloodflowers.htm (441 words)

	DAILY BRUIN ONLINE - Sound Bites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Though the majority of the band's contemporaries have either packed it in by now or should have, the Eighties holdouts are still going strong.
		For most intents, this is a good thing, as "Bloodflowers" is a study of the value of a crackerjack production team.
		With Smith and engineer Paul Corkett at the helm, "Bloodflowers" is in good hands, with sounds settling over one another like layers on a cake.
	www.dailybruin.ucla.edu /db/issues/00/02.24/ae.soundbites.html (1147 words)

	Amazon.ca: Bloodflowers: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Cure's "Bloodflowers" is the second record I heard from the Cure.
		Too much of "Bloodflowers" is forgetable at its best, a sad rip-off of their good material at their worst.
		But as for "Bloodflowers", you would be well advised to stick with the Cure's earlier material rather then slumming with this lesser version.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004GOVO (938 words)

	Bloodflowers - The Cure - Music Records Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Bloodflowers - The Cure : Here I hand You, Flowers Covered In Blood....
		Many thought that this was going to be the last album from this band (and lyrics in certain songs here did harden this theory), lead by front man Robert Smith, however, they were in fact wrong, and the proof is 2004's...
		But the world of pop is a fickle and transient place, and by the '90s the Cure were pretty much dismissed as has-beens, releasing as...
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /music-records/bloodflowers-the-cure (324 words)

	DVD.net : The Cure - Trilogy - DVD Review
		But more than that, Bloodflowers was imbued with an indefinable essence; a completeness, a homogeneity, an emotional and thematic purity which transcended the album format in a manner which few bands manage to accomplish over their entire career.
		While Disintegration remains my favourite studio album of the three, Bloodflowers is certainly the most accomplished of Trilogy’s live sets; serving to clearly illustrate the relationship between Bloodflowers and its trilogy partners.
		As you might expect there's lots of fl to be seen, be it the darkness sitting just out of beam-shot from the stage lighting, the darkness which envelopes the crowd, or the jet-fl clothing of Bob and Co. Again the bountiful contrast level fills these spaces with a wealth of shadow detail.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=2977 (1818 words)

	Pop-Culture-Corn: Music: The Cure - Bloodflowers
		The main problem: Bloodflowers sounds too much like something plucked straight out of their earlier repertoire.
		Instead of evolving, as the band has done throughout its career, The Cure opted to return to their gloomy past.
		Older hits like "Lullaby," "Friday, I'm in Love" and "The 13th" interrupted the homogenous flow and proved to be high points on those three discs.
	www.pop-culture-corn.com /music/issues/mar00/review-cure.html (562 words)

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