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The Cure – Seventeen Seconds (VG/VG) – LP, AU 1984
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Seventeen Seconds is an LP by The Cure from 1984 released on the Fiction Records, Sire label.
About this album
Seventeen Seconds is the album where The Cure transformed from sharp post-punk newcomers into a defining voice of gothic unease. Released in 1980, it stripped the band’s sound back to icy guitar lines, spare bass and tense rhythm, creating a colder and more focused mood than their debut. Robert Smith’s songwriting became more skeletal and unsettling, while standout tracks such as ‘A Forest’ showed how minimalism could still feel urgent and विशालly atmospheric. The record helped establish the band’s enduring aesthetic and became one of the key touchstones for coldwave and goth rock.
Genre: Pop & Rock
Review
AllMusic rating:AllMusic users:A1 A Reflection
A2 Play For Today
A3 Secrets
A4 In Your House
A5 Three
B1 The Final Sound
B2 A Forest
B3 M
B4 At Night
B5 Seventeen Seconds