Album Rating: 4.5

> The album went to number one on the UK Albums chart, with 51,362 sales the first week (19,838 CDs, 23,182 vinyl albums, 1,219 cassettes, 4,546 digital downloads and 2,577 sales-equivalent streams).



fuck getting a vinyl+digital download of this was annoying because they don't have a bandcamp page

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Pre-ordered it from a shop, delivered a day early.



It will be a memory for me, I was excited and it exceeded expectations it was like stepping back into me youth.

Album Rating: 5.0

good on ya mate



The singles were too good for this to flop, probs AOTY for me

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

One of the greatest of all time for me, it really is.



Everything about it and surrounding it is magnificent.



My mum is 70 and I was telling her about it, she said ‘Oh God, doesn’t it just make you just want to slash your wrists’



It’s like living in 1992 again. Priceless.

Album Rating: 5.0

I keep thinking of that Depeche Mode album from last year when listening to this...that honestly was a really good album but my god this absolutely wipes the floor with it.

Damn this album is really cool. It’s wild that they take 2+ minutes for the vocals to come in. Let it ride

Album Rating: 5.0

I was also thinking a lot about depeche mode’s memento mori recently. This one’s more coherent, more mature, has more depth, but that one was also very good, and not THAT much weaker that could justify the difference in their reception/hype. The two groups share so much similarities in terms of where they’re coming from, when their peak period was, their cult status, style and mood of their music, etc. I remember around 2005 when Playing the Angel came out, while the cure was apparently struggling, a friend of mine said “the cure is dead, but depeche mode is still delivering”, a statement with which I tended to agree. Now, both bands reached a respectable new hight of their careers, and for depeche mode, memento mori seems to occupy the same place in their discog as songs… for the cure.

Interesting. This certainly feels like the cure doing their thing.

It’s kinda bad ass when they take 3 minutes before the vocals come in

Totally forgot about Depeche Modes album. It was really good though if I remember right

Album Rating: 4.0

i need to jam memento mori again. its great but i never felt like i sunk my teeth as deep into it as i could have

Album Rating: 4.0

Band feels like it was frozen in time

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Musical moment of the 21st century



Wrangled guitar for 2mins ‘Oh, it’s misery’



Outstanding

Album Rating: 3.5

Unbelievable how good this is. I can’t believe The Cure made Warsong, like how?

Album Rating: 5.0

cygnatti that rating and that comment do not compute. bump it up my man



so far I'm pretty sure Alone, A Fragile Thing, I Can Never Say Goodbye, All I Ever am and Endsong are all time classics for this band/genre/music in general. also feel strongly that this is quite comfortably their second best record and that a bump is coming soon. I've fallen out of touch with this band for a while, but it's time to jump back on a discog run



curious, I also thought about the new DM the other day and how good I thought it was. I haven't returned to it since the release, but this indeed is leaps and bounds above that one.

Album Rating: 3.5

Been bingeing Faith since a week or so after this dropped, and am increasingly convinced that *that* is their second best record. This is somehow less than the sum of its parts (not to mention unnecessarily sappy at a couple of points), but four of those tracks really do be top-shelf Cure

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

I don’t get the sappiness at all

Album Rating: 3.5

mainly looking at And Nothing is Forever, absolute adult baby cavity-dynamite right there

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Other than the teardrop line being a tad questionable the song is lovely.

Album Rating: 3.5

instrumental is pure nursery bollocks enjoy that senile regression