Album Reviews8/10
Nick Cave’s 1997 Album Ditches Loud Guitars for Quiet Confession
A quiet, tender record of confession and faith, Nick Cave's Boatman's Call weighs stillness against the weight of being alive.
CLAY TRIBUNE / THE ARCHIVE
Tag: gothic rock
Album Reviews8/10
Nick Cave Turns the Screws on Tender Prey
A grim chronicle of tender prey: Nick Cave and his seed of tormenters confide their sins upon the mercy seat.
Album Reviews7/10
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ The Good Son Trades Repetition for Ambition, and Mostly Lands
A look back at Nick Cave's 'The Good Son,' a dark, theatrical album that rewards patience despite its flaws.
Album Reviews6.9/10
The Cure’s 4:13 Dream Sounds Like a Live Band Again, and Mostly Earns It
A record of a band's return to its old form, loud and direct, weighed by its own ambition.
Album Reviews7/10
Cure Play Their Classics as Written on A Night Like This 2005 & 2008
A live double-album of The Cure's most beloved tracks, performed with ritualistic precision across eighteen tracks.
Album Reviews8/10
The Cure’s Seventeen Seconds Is a Dark, Romantic Map of Where They Belong
A look back at The Cure's Seventeen Seconds, a confident gothic statement that established the band's dark, romantic sound.
The Cure’s Pornography at 44: How the Album Turned Despair Into a Template for Indie Rock
A solemn record of dread and despair, wherein The Cure forego the light and dwell amid shadows and sorrow.
Album Reviews8.4/10
The Cure’s ‘The Top’: Ambition, Unevenness, and One of Their Most Interesting Albums
A record of contradiction: a dark, ambitious work wherein ambition and discord contend within one soul.
Album Reviews7/10
Thirty Years On, The Cure’s Wild Mood Swings Still Can’t Shake Its Singles-and-Filler Formula
A review of The Cure's 1996 double album Wild Mood Swings, weighing its strong singles against its weaker filler.
Album Reviews7/10
Paradise Lost Trade Riffs for Synth on Believe in Nothing, Mostly Rewarding Patience
A grim tale of Paradise Lost's strange departure from metal into shadowy, synth-wrapped gloom, with two songs worth remembering.