| | The Cure: Seventeen Seconds / Faith / Pornography: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Start with Seventeen Seconds, which is a perfect example of the kind of record that's been subdivided out of existence-- a lying-in-bed-dreaming record, a guitar record that make no distinction between pop pulse, rock catharsis, and the atmospheric space we now mostly get from computers. |
 | | Most notable on Faith and Pornography are the mood-setting instrumentals from the films that introduced the band on tour ("Carnage Visors" and "Airlock"); with Seventeen Seconds it's the A- and B sides, studio and live, of the sole single by Cult Hero, the project Smith and Gallup used to test their musical compatibility. |
 | | The rest of the Seventeen Seconds set offers some terrifically-recorded live material, as does the second disc of Faith; the Cure put a lot of studio time and echo-pressing power into giving Smith's voice the huge open-air sound these performances get pre-packaged. |
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