The Cure: Disintegration review – album set flatters to deceive, and then prolongs the pain

Despite its best efforts, the band cannot mask the fact that the original record has its fair share of flaws

Disintegration a classic album? For that is what underpins this run of five shows playing the 1989 Cure album from soup to nuts (with extras).

On grounds of significance: for the band as it sailed past 3m copies worldwide; for a generation of fans who had been late to the early albums of pop-turned-gloom but discovered the joys of happy grimness; for a subsequent flow of bands that mined and expanded the material for goth pop and even a branch of neo-metal – yes, undoubtedly.

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