I find catharsis in this album. I find resolution in this album. I find resignation in this album. I find eternity in this album. Weber, Tim (20 September 2004). "BBC News | Entertainment | The Cure Take the Icon Test". BBC News . Retrieved 26 June 2013. a b Sacher, Andrew (9 June 2021). "CHVRCHES and blink-182's Mark Hoppus discuss their Robert Smith collaborations". BrooklynVegan . Retrieved 26 September 2023. By now, Robert Smith was becoming disenchanted by the band’s pop success and yearning to create a more hard-hitting work. His concerns were fuelled by his abject fear of turning 30 and the realisation that most great works had been recorded by artists well before the onset of their fourth decade. Such concerns would have a strong influence on the band’s eighth album, Disintegration .

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Ilana (24 May 2023). "Fan Poll: The Cure's 5 greatest songs". Alternative Press Magazine . Retrieved 26 September 2023.The title reflects how I felt last year. This idea of a permanent struggle to remain coherent. We tend to give up, dispersing ourselves, disintegrating. This was followed by a period of positive and eclectic sounds, peaking with 1987’s Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me. The double album was a huge success, charting in America. The Cure were continually seen as a pop band, and Smith was more fed up than ever. He wrote songs that were true to his vision for The Cure, intent on making a masterpiece while he was still 29. With Disintegration, he certainly succeeded. Leisurely and monumental, these songs glide by like ocean liners,” noted a seriously impressed Michael Azerrad in a review of the album in Rolling Stone in 1989. “Slow tempos drive serenely through the gaping spaces in the music, self-pity never sounded so good.” The Cure: Disintegration – The Reaction