Faith - Cure (The) > Reviews > Grey

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Advantages:	The single
Disadvantages:	Boring, one paced dirge

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no

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The Cure were one of a number of boy bands in the early 80's who rode the wave of punk to make a living from their particular brand of moody introspective soft rock.
Faith was their third album, issued in 1981 and following on from Three Imaginary Boys and Seventeen Seconds. They were once again down to a trio after expanding to four for the previous outing.
Faith was a low key affair, with the overall feeling of facelessness which had been the dominant theme on the last outing continuing, but this time the whole album was monochrome, with similarly drab music.
Apart from the relatively exciting single Primary this was a disappointment, one paced and morbid, with the Cure starting to disappear up their own rear ends.
Listen to it - The Funeral Party, Doubt, The Drowning Man - hardly inspiring titles are they.
They came back to life later, but for 1981 at least the Cure were becalmed and going nowhere.