The Cure – Seventeen Seconds (VG+/VG+) – LP, EU 2016

Seventeen Seconds is an LP by The Cure from 2016 released on the Fiction Records 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

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