The Cure - The Only One

The Cure were one of the most important bands of their day and I was really afraid that they might have become an irrelevance in todays frenetic, beats driven scene or, even worse, tried to keep up like a dad at the disco.

In the end the essential qualities that made them so important back in the day are still there – the impassioned vocals, the chunky guitar patterns but mixed with more complex rhythms and excellent production.

The song sounds like the feelings of an adolescent in his first love affair and they manage to capture the hopeful but fearful and confused emotions within a delightful four minutes.

The second item – NY Trip – is a more complex affair with adverse vocals against an industrial sounding backing. It aims, I guess, for the feel of New York but misses the point of New York, its’ arrogance is a defence mechanism and not an imposition.

Welcome back to The Cure, great to have you back.

By Alistair V

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