0087. The Cure
Seventeen Seconds
As a person who've never heard a whole Cure album but a lot (?) of their songs I got to say that Seventeen Seconds was not what I expected. The introductory A Reflection for instance: an instrumental track which sounds so good I wonder why noone's sampled it and got a huge hit.
These goth / post-punk tracks are very enjoyable as the dissonance in The Final Sound gives a nice contrast to the more polished sounds of In Your House and (the single) A Forest. Sure, at times the production sounds very much nineteen eighty (like on M), but it's still good.
Apparently there was some reviewers at the time of it's original release that called it a collection of soundtracks - as if it's a bad thing!
This album isn't anything that will make you go "wow" and sell every brightly coloured piece of clothing you've got, but it's an album that would make a good background for a long night's drive on a lonely road.
