Cureation

A note on the production choices — drum treatment, flanging, mix-bus compression — that made The Cure's fourth album harder for the band to make and harder for their audience to place.

A short chronicle of the band's four Pyramid Stage headline appearances — 1986, 1990, 1995 and 2019 — and what each marked within the band's arc.

The instruments that made the records — from the hand-me-down Top Twenty of 1977 to the Gibsons and Fenders that defined the imperial-era tone.

Recorded between November 1988 and February 1989 at Outside Studios in Berkshire and Hook End Manor in Oxfordshire, Disintegration took shape against the band's own stated intention to make something "darker and slower."

How a Crawley four-piece dropped half their name — and most of their original set — in the year between signing with Hansa and releasing their first single on Fiction.