The Cure – The Walk (VG/VG) – LP, CA 1983

The Walk is an LP by The Cure from 1983 released on the Sire label.

About this album

The Walk is a sharply stylish mini-album that shows The Cure refining their early-1980s pop experiment. Released in 1983, it bridges the murkier post-punk sound of their earlier work and the more playful, synthetic direction that would define their breakthrough run. Built around crisp drum-machine pulses, wiry guitar and Robert Smith’s deadpan vocal delivery, it turns spare arrangements into something catchy and uneasy at once. With songs such as “The Walk” and “Let’s Go to Bed” in its orbit, the release helped establish the band as one of Britain’s most inventive and unpredictable pop acts.