Wild Mood Swings

... The secret, perhaps, reside in the ability that Cure developed about knowing to accompany the pop waves with an own style, developing and not letting to seduce for idioms.
It is ready the group's tenth studio album that doesn't let to expose the opposite - Wild Mood Swings. The disc is among the best ones of the band, impregnated of new lights in the darkness room that reveals the sound of Cure. The lyrics stay broken-hearted, terminals, and sometimes sarcastic, but the sound combines the 'traditional Cure' and the new Cure, in a clear mixture of ideas. Produced by Robert Smith and Steve Lyon, are fourteen small love and hate histories tortured in a brilliant route that drives us from the quartet baroque strings on "This Is Lie" to the sublime 'mariachi' and Latin on "The 13th".
The dancing exotism on "The 13th" finds delicious echoes in the psychedelic "Strange Attraction", in the jazzy "Gone!", one of the best compositions of Mr. Smith, or even on the strong "Return". With relationship to "Bare", "Numb", "Round & Round & Round" and "Treasure", these count with the a quartet strings presence that propitiates the lyrics profund tone, that can sound, violently, without a salvation, as the lyrics of "Trap" ("Drowning like the fly in my drink/You drone about being on the drink/But I really don't care what you think/Oh, I'm sick of it all..."). That is Cure.
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Completing the album set list, we will still find the stormy and obsessed "Want", a debauched "Mint Car", the heavy "Club América" and the epic "Jupiter Crash".
A vast creativity ammunition to subsidize an imagination in search of new territory. Wild Mood Swings is a discovery in the the band discography.
(Murillo Sant'lago - July/96)