The Cure – Disintegration (VG+/VG+) – LP, AU 1989

Disintegration is an LP by The Cure from 1989 released on the Fiction Records label.

About this album

Disintegration is widely regarded as The Cure’s masterpiece, and the group’s most fully realised plunge into gothic melancholy and widescreen alternative rock. Issued in 1989, it found Robert Smith turning inward after pop success, shaping a record of elegiac beauty and emotional collapse that feels both intimate and monumental. The album’s atmosphere is built on dense guitar layers, pulsing basslines and Smith’s searching voice, with landmark songs such as Plainsong, Pictures of You, Lullaby and Fascination Street giving it enduring reach. Its critical standing and lasting influence helped define the mood and ambition of late-80s alternative music.