The Cure: A Cartoon Of Itself

The Cure repeats The Cure. The new album Wish of the english band created by Robert Smith is a pale cartoon of everything that it already did. There is not an innovation centimeter,just a opportunist tentative of enlarging the guitars ultilization and the distorcions, as in the song "Cut".
Trying to figure in the market is a very modest project for a group that, when recycling the inheritance punk, not only as music, but as visual, has occupied with prominence the english rock scene in the eighties.
For who is not The Cure fan and doesn't know its previous works, Wish sounds as a reasonable pop-rock. But the ones that accompany the trajectory of the band just find disappointement.
Robert Smith has changed the niilist despair for young and romantic matters, even if featuring some lyric a little more intimist. Smith made comfortable during the three years in that the band was without recording, didn't think a lot about this new album.
The guitars at least are good, especially in "Doing The Unstuck", and, although without attractiveness, they are melodies in "To Wish Impossible Things". But to hear Robert Smith singing nonsense matters as "Friday I'm In Love" is to embarrass Humberto Gessinger. Robert Smith ruffled the hair and froze the neurons. Wish is just a pop disc devoid of notable aspect with imaginative videos of Tim Pope. It is very a little for a band that was three years no recording and having fan club all over the world and that has survived of the dark rock of the eighties. A deceptionate album.
(Celso Fonseca)