The Head On The Door

Sometimes gloomy as a expressionist movie, another despaired as an accelerated carrousel, but always with the musicality in front of everything that is be doing in the moment. These and many other things turn the english band The Cure one of the most important and exciting appeared among the thousands that sprouted in the british pos-punk period.
As pearl black drived in the snow, it stands out and is always being stood out to each new realised work...
Now, The Cure putting out its sixth studio album, just composed of unpublished and unreleased stuff, The Head On The Door. Original of the english independent Fiction, has distribution in Europe and Brazil by PolyGram, through Polydor label.
The Head On The Door brings ten exquisite music, that will reinforce The Cure faithfull idolatry everywhere and it will increase its brazilian public, that up to now enjoy Concert, first group LP reliased in Brazil, that obtained repercussion more than the expected.
Robert Smith, vocalist, guitarist and main writer, is the responsible name for the creation of The Cure, that in six existence years already had its line-up altered several times...
Robert Smith personal and existentialist themes continue presents in The Head On The Door lyrics, all them are creations of him. The fear of the age, that already made him to declare that would like to die with 25 years of age for not seeing his white hair, it is in the song "Inbetween Days", the first disc hit.
His search for the unattainable person is present in almost all the songs, some of them are pure Cure, like "A Night Like This", "Six Different Ways" and "Screw", that remind plenty the initial phase of the group. Another remind more recent stuffs, like "The Blood", "Kyoto Song" and "Push".
The song that inspired the name of the disc is "Close To Me".
The Head On The Door was recorded between May and April past. After that the band travelled Spain, Switzerland, Denmark, Italy, Finland, United Kingdom, culminating with the first presentation in the traditional Wembley Arena. Then they went to the USA and now they are playing in Europe until December.
The Cure finally gets commercial success without altering its original formula, with "Inbetween Days" and several other world hits. In spite of they be nonpolitical, the lyrics suggest several messages oon a personal level, although so much depressed. But that is The Cure main characteristic, and the fans reason adoration.
The Head On The Door will certainly repeat the Concert success and will open road so that other jewels already reliased by The Cure are published in Brazil. At once one of the best discs of the year and certainly presence highlighted in the international charts. A careful Robert Smith and Dave Allen production, that PolyGram wisely accomplishes in the market.
(Tom Lećo - October/85)