buffyleigh
5
Really good album; everything is in the atmospheres and the layers of guitars and effects. It's a bit long though.
Apparently Robert Smith had a bit of a crisis of confidence approaching his 30th birthday, thinking that he would soon be past his creative peak. He wrote most of the material for this album on his own, working through his feelings of despair and the band added musical gloomscapes to them. The end result is oddly uplifting, when you remember that Bob is now happily in his sixties and still collaborating with bands who are less than half his age. Gothtastic!
I guess this album is good. But it made me feel so miserable and it was really hard for me to listening to all 72 minutes of it.