Disintegration

继上张专辑《Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me》大获成功后，The Cure 又在1989年推出一张大热门专辑《Disintegration》。《Disintegration》同时也是 Robert Smith“悲情三部曲”的第二部，显得黑暗诱人，带着神秘和忧郁，整张专辑有着催眠曲一样的感觉，没有了乐队以前的黑暗绝望的作风，尽管专辑的基调比以前更为忧郁。The Cure 的音乐罕见的变得迷人了起来。好像在无垠的大海里，仰望夜空闪亮的星光，慢慢下沉，痛苦浸透，安详地窒息。铺天盖地的深蓝色键盘，孤寂而灿烂的吉他，黑暗中幻化出彩色光芒的贝司，沉稳压抑而华丽眩目的鼓，还有 Robert Smith 凄美冷艳的歌声。

专辑取得了英国榜第3和美国榜第14的佳绩，并诞生了两首大热门单曲 “Lullaby” 和 “Lovesong” 。还有《Prayers for Rain》和长达九分多钟《The Same Deep Water as You》等优美歌曲，《Disintegration》是The Cure在商业上的重大突破，成为The Cure在70～80年代最畅销的专辑。因为专辑出色的商业成绩，在之后的世界巡回演出中，The Cure第一次在能容纳数万观众的室外大型体育场上为乐迷表演。

这张专辑在滚石杂志选出的500张历代最强专辑中排名第326位。

by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Expanding the latent arena rock sensibilities that peppered Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me by slowing them down and stretching them to the breaking point, the Cure reached the peak of their popularity with the crawling, darkly seductive Disintegration. It's a hypnotic, mesmerizing record, comprised almost entirely of epics like the soaring, icy "Pictures of You." The handful of pop songs, like the concise and utterly charming "Love Song," don't alleviate the doom-laden atmosphere. The Cure's gloomy soundscapes have rarely sounded so alluring, however, and the songs -- from the pulsating, ominous "Fascination Street" to the eerie, string-laced "Lullaby" -- have rarely been so well-constructed and memorable. It's fitting that Disintegration was their commercial breakthrough, since, in many ways, the album is the culmination of all the musical directions the Cure were pursuing over the course of the '80s.